Active Sync-Enabled Adapter Schema Maps

The Active Sync resource schema map is an optional utility that enables you to edit inputs to an Active Sync-enabled adapter, which are often database column names or directory attribute names. Using the schema map and an Active Sync form, you can implement Java code to handle a resource type, defining details of the resource configuration in the map and form.

Identity Manager uses an Active Sync resource’s schema map in the same way that it uses a typical schema map. The schema map specifies which attributes to fetch from the resource and their local names. All attribute names that are listed in the schema map (that is, all attributes that exist on the resource) are made available to the Active Sync form and the user form with the activeSync.name attribute. If the Active Sync resource does not use a form, all attributes are named global to ensure that all attributes automatically propagate to attributes with the same name on all resources. Use a form rather than the global namespace.

Do not put the accountId attribute in the global namespace because this special attribute is used to identify waveset.account.global.

If you are creating the resource account for the first time, the accountId attribute also becomes a resource’s accountId directly and it bypasses the identity template.

For example, if a new Identity Manager user is created through the Active Sync-enabled adapter and that user has an LDAP account assigned to it, the LDAP accountID will match the global.accountId instead of the correct DN from the DN template.