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Constant Use Case

This use case represents a basic scenario in which one user directory only stores customers, while another user directory only stores employees.

Note: Advanced use cases are shown in the Apply Attribute Mapping section. The advanced use cases detail how you use different attribute mapping types to identify the same user attribute across different directory types.

The following illustration details how two constant attribute mappings can represent different values for different user directories.

1. Directory A only stores customers. Directory B only stores employees.
2. IsCust is the common name that is mapped to different values in different directories:
   • IsCust is mapped to TRUE in Directory A.
   • IsCust is mapped to FALSE in Directory B.
3. You can reference IsCust when defining policies, expressions, or other objects that must determine if a user is a customer, without attending to the particular directory in which the user is stored. SiteMinder determines that every user in Directory A is a customer, while every user in Directory B is not a customer.