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Well-Known Attributes for a Relational Database

Well-known attributes have special meaning in CA IdentityMinder. They are identified by the following syntax:

%ATTRIBUTENAME%

In this syntax, ATTRIBUTENAME must be uppercase.

A well-known attribute is mapped to one physical attribute using an attribute description.

In the following attribute description, the attribute tblUsers.password is mapped to the well-known attribute %PASSWORD% so that CA IdentityMinder treats the value in tblUsers.password as a password:

<ImsManagedObjectAttr
	physicalname="tblUsers.password"
	displayname="Password"
	description="Password"
	valuetype="String"
	required="false"
	multivalued="false"
	wellknown="%PASSWORD%"
	maxlength="0" />

Some well-known attributes are required; others are optional.