Administration Console: Global Attributes Configuration Page

The PeopleUpdate Administration Console's to indicate which attributes are available for global pages. You can also set display properties about attributes that determine how they behave and render in the Search Console.

Accessing the Global Attributes Configuration Page

You must have administrative access to the PeopleUpdate Administration Console to modify the global attribute configuration.

To navigate to the Attributes page:

Log in to the Administration Console. Click here for more information about logging into the Administration Console.
Click Global Attributes in the left navigation bar in the Global Configuration section.

Adding a New Attribute

You can easily add global attributes to the configuration and then make those attributes available for searching, displaying in results or editing.

Alias	Specifies a friendly display name users will see for the attribute in Search Console pages
LDAP Name	Designates the Active Directory LDAP name (displayname attribute) for the attribute

To add a new attribute:

Navigate to the Administration Console’s Global Attributes page.
Enter a friendly display name in the Alias field and the Active Directory name for the attribute in the LDAP Name field.
Click Add Attribute to add the attribute to your PeopleUpdate global attribute configuration.

Modifying an Attribute

Change the properties of attributes in your configuration to specify exactly how you want global attributes to behave. You will most often set up list choices, access control list and editing input masks using this procedure.

Alias	Specifies a friendly display name that users will see for the attribute in Search Console pages
LDAP Name	Designates the Active Directory LDAP name (displayname attribute) for the attribute
Deny Wildcard	Enforces a global denial for using wildcarding while searching. Items that have Store as DN checked automatically set themselves to deny wildcarding since an attribute stored by its distinguished name cannot be wildcarded in a search.
Store by DN	Ensures the attribute you are configuring is searched in the directory using its distinguished name. PeopleUpdate automatically performs a second search on all items stored by distinguished name and returns the LDAP cn attribute to display as the friendly name.
Access Control List	Specifies the access control list (ACL) to use to secure who can edit the attribute. Use the drop-down list to select an access control list to apply to the attribute. You can create new access control lists on the Security page. Note: You cannot set an ACL for the "c" and "countryCode" attributes since these are special attributes used in conjunction with the "co" attribute that updates a user's country based upon the ISO-3166 standard. You may only set an ACL for the "co" (Country Name) attribute using PeopleUpdate.
List Choices	Displays the items currently in the list and allows you to add new items to the list. When you add new items, set the Display Text to the text you want to show in the list. Set the Search Filter to the actual search filter you want to match for the attribute. You can leave this value blank if you want to search using the Display Text. For example, you can set the Department attribute's choice list Display Text to "HR" while setting the Search Filter to "ldap:(\|(HR)(Human Resources))" and this would cause PeopleUpdate to search for a match for either HR or Human Resources, not just HR. Note that using the "ldap:" text before the search filter allows you to input a complete LDAP search filter to use for searching. PeopleUpdate allows you to configure a Stored Value setting that is different from the Display Text and Search Filter values. The Stored Value designates the actual text value to store in Active Directory when an attribute value is updated using a PeopleUpdate choice list. This functionality allows you to support, among other scenarios, a multi-lingual environment where the AD value is stored in one language but the Display Text can be a different language to show in each tab. You may use the Show Active Directory values not in list on Search Console Edit pages check box to show Active Directory values that are not in a choice list when on the Edit page updating a choice list value. This adds the value not in the list to the list so that a user can update the data to the same value. For example, if your Department attribute choice list contains four values, HR, IT, Marketing and Sales, this option would show an additional item called Accounting when editing a user who's department is set to Accounting in Active Directory. Note: The Show Active Directory values not in list on Search Console Edit pages check box only shows in the List Choices options when you have added at least one item to the list. You can also set the default selected item or delete an item from the list.
List Preview	Displays the list choices in a drop-down list
Enable Input Mask	Click the checkbox to enable an input mask for users when editing attributes. Note: Enabling the input mask can only be done if there is no drop-down list present. You must delete each item from the drop-down list from List Choices before the Enable Input Mask checkbox is enabled.
Input Mask	Input mask to be used on the edit page 0 Digit (0 through 9, entry required; plus [+] and minus [-] signs not allowed). 9 Digit or space (entry not required). # Digit or space (entry required). L Letter (A through Z, entry required). ? Letter (A through Z, entry optional). A Letter or digit (entry required). a Letter or digit (entry optional). & Any character or a space (entry required). C Any character or a space (entry optional). . , : ; - / Decimal placeholder and thousands, date, and time separators. (The actual character used depends on the regional settings specified in Microsoft Windows Control Panel.) < Causes all characters that follow to be converted to lowercase. > Causes all characters that follow to be converted to uppercase. \ If in front of any character appears the "\" (escape) character, then that character becomes the literal part of mask. For example, if mask is set to the "A\AB\B\\\##\99" and control has no data, then text in edit mode will appear as "_ABB\#_9_". Where the "_" are available positions for entry Note: To cancel upper/lower case convention which was set by the > or < flag, that flag should be used one more time. For example, if mask is set to the ">CC->CC->CC" and user entered the "XxXxXx", then resulting text should appear as "XX-Xx-XX". While control has no input focus, the optional empty mask positions are not displayed. The following table shows some useful input mask definitions and examples of values you can enter into them. (000) 000-0000 (206) 555-0248 (000) AAA-AAAA (206) 555-TELE
URI Configuration	Render E-Mail Addresses as Linkable: Controls the link behavior of e-mail address values for this attribute. Default inherits the global value set on the Branding page. True overrides the global settings and always renders e-mail addresses as links. False overrides the global settings and never renders e-mail addresses as links. Render URIs as Linkable:Controls the link behavior of Universal Resource Indicator (URI) values for this attribute. Default inherits the global value set on the Branding page. True overrides the global settings and always renders URIs as links. False overrides the global settings and never renders URIs as links. URI Target: Specifies the target for URIs rendered as links for this attribute and overrides the global value set on the Branding page. You can use the default HTML options of "_blank," "_parent," "_self" or "_top." You may also enter a name for a window and all links for this attribute will target the same new window.
Text Box Configuration	Default width of the edit text box for this attribute. Overrides the global value set on the Branding page

To edit an attribute:

Navigate to the Administration Console’s Attributes page.
Select the tab that contains the attribute configuration you want to edit.
Click Edit next to the attribute you want to modify and you will enter edit mode for the attribute.
Make any changes you'd like to the attribute, including setting the alias and name, wildcarding, access control lists, editing input masks and list choices.
Click Save to update the attribute configuration changes. Click Cancel to revert your edit mode changes without saving.

Note: Any changes you save for an attribute automatically update throughout the application for all pages.

Deleting an Attribute

To delete an existing attribute, click the X in the right column of the attribute you want to delete. After you confirm this operation, it deletes the attribute and any references to it in the remainder of the application, including search and results pages.