Attributes with Transient Values

You can define fields that store values at the top-level of the user view, but these values are transient. Although they exist throughout the life of the in-memory user view (typically the life of the process), the values of these fields are not stored in the Identity Manager repository or propagated to a resource account.

For example, a phone number value is the result of concatenating the values of three form fields. In the following example, p1 refers to the area code, p2 and p3 refer to the rest of the phone number. These are then combined by a field named global.workPhone. Because the combined phone number is the only value you want propagated to the resources, only that field is prepended with global.

In general, use the top-level field syntax if you are:

• not pushing a field value out to Identity Manager or any other resource

• the field is being used only in email notifications or for calculating other fields.

Any field that is to be passed to the next level must have one of the path prefixes defined in the preceding table, User View Attributes.

Field name=’p1’ required=’true’>
   <Display class=’Text’>
      <Property name=’title’ value=’Work Phone Number’/>
      <Property name=’size’ value=’3’/>
      <Property name=’maxLength’ value=’3’/>
   </Display>
</Field>
<Field name=’p2’ display=’true’ required=’true’>
   <Display class=’Text’>
      <Property name=’rowHold’ value=’true’/>
      <Property name=’noNewRow’ value=’true’/>
      <Property name=’size’ value=’3’/>
      <Property name=’maxLength’ value=’3’/>
   </Display>
</Field>
<Field name=’p3’ display=’true’ required=’true’>
   <Display class=’Text’>
      <Property name=’rowHold’ value=’true’/>
      <Property name=’noNewRow’ value=’true’/>
      <Property name=’size’ value=’4’/>
      <Property name=’maxLength’ value=’4’/>
   </Display>
</Field>
<Field name=’global.workPhone’ required=’true’ hidden=’true’>
   <Expansion>
      <concat>
         <ref>p1</ref>
         <s>-</s>
         <ref>p2</ref>
         <s>-</s>
         <ref>p3</ref>
      </concat>
   </Expansion>
</Field>