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[Dominique Petitpierre <>]

Hello,

On 09/24/2012 07:24 PM, Gagné Sébastien wrote:
> Thanks for the information, I was able to test my JEXL, but my problem is 
> somewhat different
>
> First my working JEXL
> Defined as the following, my virtual attribute does work :
> <init-param>
>       <param-name>subjectVirtualAttribute_0_descriptionUnique</param-name>
>       <param-value>${subject.getAttributeValue('displayName')} 
> (${subject.getAttributeValue('sAMAccountName')})</param-value>
> </init-param>
...

> With description = descriptionUnique (my virtual attribute) :
> gsh 1% ss = SubjectFinder.findAll("marchanr")
> subject: id='marchanr2' type='person' source='ldap' name='Marchand Robert'
>
>
> I only get one result because the description is empty if I use the virtual 
> attribute :

In my understanding (and experiments), one cannot use a virtual
attribute for the three base attributes:
  SubjectID_AttributeType
  Name_AttributeType
  Description_AttributeType
They have to be attributes retrieved by an LDAP query.

I guess one of the reason is that the LDAP directory can be queried by
Grouper with the value of these attributes (e.g. to find if a person's
entry still exist in the directory), and virtual attribute
construction works only one way (no "deconstruction" in elmentary
values).

As Francesco Malvezzi described you can use virtual attributes in the
configuration file media.properties to specify what to display to the
UI user (in addition to subject.display.default and
grouperUi.subjectImg.screenEl.0 you can also use it in
subject.attributes.order.yoursource).

Best regards,
Dominique
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Mr Dominique Petitpierre, user=Dominique.Petitpierre domain=unige.ch
IT Division, University of Geneva, Switzerland