[midPoint] User renaming in 2 resources

[Ivan Noris]

Hi Aivo,


just to understand, why can the name be changed in midpoint first and in
authoritative source later?

Ivan


On 11/23/2016 04:31 PM, Aivo Kuhlberg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have midPoint connected to HR system (inbound only). Some of the HR
> user's info, eg firstname  and lastname, is synced directly to
> midPoint when it changes in HR with strong inbound strength. But the
> problem is here that user's name may be changed first in midPoint and
> later in HR. When that happens then user name may change back to
> old value after HR sync and later change back to new value when the
> user name is changed in HR system. I want to avoid that situation.
> Once the user name is changed it should not switch back to old value
> because there are other attributes which depend on that.
> My current idea how to avoid that situation is to store the midPoint
> user's old name values in user's extension attributes when user's name
> changes, eg "extension/oldgivenname" and "extension/oldsn". In this
> case I could control for example the HR firstname attribute inbound
> mapping with simple condition (for simplicity I assume here that
> oldgivenname is single-valued attribute):
>  <condition>
>     <script><code>oldgivenname==null || firstname !=
> oldgivenname</code></script>
>  </condition>
>
> Question for me here is how to store the midPoint user's givenName or
> sn attribute value in respective extension/oldgivenname or
> extension/oldsn attribute before it is changed. Does anybody have any
> ideas how to implement that functionality or any better ideas how to
> avoid user name changing issue described above?
> Thanks,
> Aivo Kuhlberg
>
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Ivan Noris
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