Unicode char are appending in between the values
Article ID: 201902
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Products
CA Identity Manager
CA Identity Governance
CA Identity Portal
CA Identity Suite
Issue/Introduction
We have a use case where a user can select more than one role (screen logical attribute) from the multi-select control. we are sending the role values to PX and then we are sending email.
Email received on this format:
Email received on this format:
"EM-PSAPPORTAL-CORE-DATAENTRY","EM-PSAPPORTAL-CORE-VIEWER","EM-PSAPPORTAL-FINANCE-ADMIN","EM-PSAPPORTAL-FINANCE-DATAENTRY",
However, when we copy past the value in notepad++ we are seeing few Unicode char are adding in between the values.
"EM-PSAPPORTAL-CORE-DATAENTRY",¬¬"EM-PSAPPORTAL-CORE-VIEWER",¬¬"EM-PSAPPORTAL-FINANCE-ADMIN",¬¬"EM-PSAPPORTAL-FINANCE-DATAENTRY",
We are sending the above attribute (role) in rest API call because of these Unicode char the api call is failing .
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no patch applied
version is 14.3
Environment
Release : 14.3
Component : IdentityMinder(Identity Manager)
Resolution
Add logical screen field attribute to the create user profile
Change type to a multi-select simple list
Add values to use business data and display user-friendly data, such as:
EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-ADMIN;Planning Admin
EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-DATAENTRY;Planning Data Entry
EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-VIEWER;Planning Viewer
EM-PSAPPORTAL-TRAINCERT-ADMIN;Traincert Admin
Create a Policy Xpress policy:
Profile: Type: Submitted TASK
Events: Event state: TASK COMPLETED, Event Name: Create User
Data:
Name: |ListOfStuff|
•Category: Attributes
•Type: User Attribute
•Function: Get
Function Description
Attribute Name (second radio-button) manually add screenfiled exact case: |ListOfStuff|
Save log to local PC, Open with notpad++ convert log to Ascii
You will see, two characters used as a separator:
Copy this Ascii converted character
Modify your policy express policy create a new data element:
Name: changetxt
•Category: General
•Type: String Parser
•Function: Replace All
Original String: {'|ListOfStuff|'}
Sub-String to be Replaced:
Replace With: ","
Produces:
"changetxt": EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-ADMIN","EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-DATAENTRY","EM-PSAPPORTAL-TRAINCERT-ADMIN
For Final consumption we had to wrap the value with quotes:
•Name: WrapWithQuotes
•Category: General
•Type: Constant
•Function: Get
Constant: "{'changetxt'}"
Produces:
This is the value of Wrap with Quotes: "EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-ADMIN","EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-DATAENTRY","EM-PSAPPORTAL-TRAINCERT-ADMIN"
Change type to a multi-select simple list
Add values to use business data and display user-friendly data, such as:
EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-ADMIN;Planning Admin
EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-DATAENTRY;Planning Data Entry
EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-VIEWER;Planning Viewer
EM-PSAPPORTAL-TRAINCERT-ADMIN;Traincert Admin
Create a Policy Xpress policy:
Profile: Type: Submitted TASK
Events: Event state: TASK COMPLETED, Event Name: Create User
Data:
Name: |ListOfStuff|
•Category: Attributes
•Type: User Attribute
•Function: Get
Function Description
Attribute Name (second radio-button) manually add screenfiled exact case: |ListOfStuff|
Save log to local PC, Open with notpad++ convert log to Ascii
You will see, two characters used as a separator:
Copy this Ascii converted character
Modify your policy express policy create a new data element:
Name: changetxt
•Category: General
•Type: String Parser
•Function: Replace All
Original String: {'|ListOfStuff|'}
Sub-String to be Replaced:
Replace With: ","
Produces:
"changetxt": EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-ADMIN","EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-DATAENTRY","EM-PSAPPORTAL-TRAINCERT-ADMIN
For Final consumption we had to wrap the value with quotes:
•Name: WrapWithQuotes
•Category: General
•Type: Constant
•Function: Get
Constant: "{'changetxt'}"
Produces:
This is the value of Wrap with Quotes: "EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-ADMIN","EM-PSAPPORTAL-PLANNING-DATAENTRY","EM-PSAPPORTAL-TRAINCERT-ADMIN"
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