{"id":22,"date":"2018-09-05T01:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T01:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aladan.net\/MIMicry\/?p=22"},"modified":"2018-09-05T04:21:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T04:21:50","slug":"skipped-not-precedent-only-cares-about-your-rules-not-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aladan.net\/MIMicry\/2018\/09\/05\/skipped-not-precedent-only-cares-about-your-rules-not-your-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Skipped-Not-Precedent only cares about your rules, not your data"},"content":{"rendered":"

The customer wanted to set AD’s gidNumber to the last digit of the user’s objectSid, plus a constant – but only if there wasn’t a value present in the field already (so that they could manually set it in AD directly, in certain cases).\u00a0 I figured I’d be fine with both an import and an export scoped sync rule, since the export rule would only apply when there was no import flow value<\/em> for that attribute.\u00a0 But, it turns out the “skipped-non-precedent” check looks at the configuration<\/em>, not the (presence or absence of) actual data!<\/p>\n

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For the solution to this problem please read this blog post: Conditional Attribute Updates in Scoped Sync Rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course this would be much easier if we just used a Rules Extension EAF, but they’re deprecated \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The customer wanted to set AD’s gidNumber to the last digit of the user’s objectSid, plus a constant – but only if there wasn’t a value present in the field already (so that they could manually set it in AD directly, in certain cases).\u00a0 I figured I’d be fine with both an import and an…<\/span><\/p>\n

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