I would approach this with a rules extension and look at using the ReferenceValue.Subcomponents method to extract the component you are looking for. Bob Bradley (FIMBob @ http://thefimteam.com/) ... now using Event Broker 3.0 @ http://www.fimeventbroker.com/ for just-in-time delivery of FIM 2010 policy via the sync engine That won't get the OP what he wants I don't think. FIM doesn't have a way to dereference references in code AFAIK.My Book - Active Directory, 4th Edition My Blog - www.briandesmond.com

Vote for the bug here.CraigMartin Edgile, Inc. http://identitytrench.com

Sorry - the bug is news to me ... assumed it still worked as per MIIS/ILM :|Bob Bradley (FIMBob @ http://thefimteam.com/) ... now using Event Broker 3.0 @ http://www.fimeventbroker.com/ for just-in-time delivery of FIM 2010 policy via the sync engine

Should that link work for everyone, Craig? Or would we first need to do something with Connect and FIM? I got a page not found.

if you want to do Outbound SR on the users object, and the user has a reference department attribute, you can add a workflow parameter and use function evaluator to store the department name if not ignore this post ... define the synchronization rule with workflow parameters such as departmentname in your Workflow (where you used the SR activity) define a function eval activity above that SR-activity and configure it as : write to workflow data attribute : [//workflowdata/departmentname] the value : custom expression - > [//Target/DepartmentRef/Name] you need to modify the above and write your correct reference attribute-name "ex: DepartmentRef", then in the SR-activity you write your parameter It's never too late in life ... to start living

Hello, i want to add a mapping in my sync rule but there is a little problem ; my source attribute is a reference and i want to map it's DisplayName with the destination attribute with is name_dept how can i resolve this problem thanks

I would approach this with a rules extension and look at using the ReferenceValue.Subcomponents method to extract the component you are looking for.Bob Bradley (FIMBob @ http://thefimteam.com/) ... now using Event Broker 3.0 @ http://www.fimeventbroker.com/ for just-in-time delivery of FIM 2010 policy via the sync engine