[midPoint] fire-and-forget action to update attribute in resource

[Markus Calmius]

Hi Pavol,

thank you for the pointer.

It looks like it's working.
Ended up doing it like this... not sure whether or not there are better ways though

shadowBefore = shadow.clone()

shadowPrism = shadow.asPrismObject()

ipath = ItemPath.create(ShadowType.F_ATTRIBUTES, attrQname)

shadowPrism.findOrCreateProperty(ipath).addRealValue(setAttrValue)

delta = shadowBefore.asPrismObject().diff(shadowPrism)

midpoint.executeChanges(delta)

Kind regards,
Markus
On Saturday, 7 February 2026 at 18:40, Pavol Mederly via midPoint <midpoint at lists.evolveum.com> wrote:

> Hi Markus,
>
> certainly. All you need to do is to execute a change against a shadow object, modifying specified attribute directly. The property path to be used is composed from "attributes" and the attribute name, e.g. "attributes/dn".
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Pavol Mederly
> Interim Chief Product Officer
> evolveum.com
>
> On 23/01/2026 13:12, Markus Calmius via midPoint wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Is it possible to create a task or groovy script to modify a particular attribute directly on a resource, in the same way as when editing a user’s projection?
>> Even without an outbound mapping, the attribute is updated on the resource. I would like to do this via a task/script without defining an outbound mapping, so that changes made by the resource are not overwritten by midpoint during reconciliations.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Markus
>>
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