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[Liam Hoekenga <>]

We have a couple of "packed" attributes in our LDAP source - basically a string representation of object... a single attribute containing data useful for creating several different "reference" groups, e.g.

{jobCategory=Staff}:{campus=ANN-ARBOR}:{deptId=111111}:{deptGroup=COLLEGE_OF_ART}:{deptDescription=Wicker Baskets}:{deptGroupDescription=Container Based Art Forms}:{deptVPArea=VP_CONTAINER_AFFAIRS}:{jobcode=222222}:{jobFamily=333}:{emplStatus=A}:{regTemp=R}:{supervisorId=44444444}:{tenureStatus=NA}:{jobIndicator=P}

I was hoping to get some advice on processing them economically.

Is there a way to retrieve this data once and explode it into multiple attribute based groups in one fell swoop?  (Maybe using the hook mechanism?)

Or would we need to define a bunch of attribute based groups that looked at a piece of the data and did something with it?

Liam