Create new customs fields not in AD

Question

Hello,

I would like to create a form for Service Desk that contains specifics fields about information's not in any AD attributes?
I need then to use these data's into a PS scripts after the creation of an object.

Example : The form contains : Reference User : --> the Service Desk type the login name or better browses in AD to select the Reference User.
This value will be save into the custom variable %referenceuser% and useable in scripts.

It is possible to do it with Adaxes?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello,

For this purpose, you can use custom attributes provided by Adaxes. They are not stored in AD, but can be used the same as any other attributes of AD objects. The following attributes are available for you to use:

• CustomAttributeText1 through CustomAttributeText30 - for text (string) values,
• CustomAttributeTextMultiValue1 through CustomAttributeTextMultiValue10 - for multivalued text (string) values,
• CustomAttributeBoolean1 through CustomAttributeBoolean25 - for boolean values,
• CustomAttributeInt1 through CustomAttributeInt5 - for integer values,
• CustomAttributeBinary1 through CustomAttributeBinary5 - for binary values,
• CustomAttributeDate1 through CustomAttributeDate5 - for date values,
• CustomAttributeTimeStamp1 through CustomAttributeTimeStamp5 - for timestamp values.

You can provide your own name under which attributes appear in Adaxes, however in value references you need to use the LDAP names for the attributes. LDAP names do not change. All Adaxes custom attributes have the adm- prefix on their LDAP names. For example, to insert the value of the CustomAttributeText1 attribute, use the following value reference: %adm-CustomAttributeText1%.

For information on how to provide display names for attributes, see the following help article: http://www.adaxes.com/help/?HowDoI.Mana ... Names.html.

As for the possibility to pick a user, currently, there are no custom attributes that would allow you to do that, however for this purpose you can use any AD attribute supporting the DN syntax that you don't use for other purposes. For example, you can use such attributes as See Also, Manager, Secretary or Assistant.

Comments

Hello,

Thank you :-)

>>As for the possibility to pick a user, currently, there are no custom attributes that would allow you to do that, however for this purpose you can use any >>AD attribute supporting the DN syntax that you don't use for other purposes. For example, you can use such attributes as See Also, Manager, Secretary or >>Assistant.

I am new with Adaxes :-)
I do not see how I can pickup the reference user directly from the web interface and then use the CN of this user later in my script.

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Hello,

For this purpose, you can use value references. A value reference for a property that supports the DN syntax will return you the Distinguished Name (DN) of the object selected on the form. Thus, for example, if you use the assistant attribute to specify a reference user, you can get the Distinguished Name of the selected user using the %assistant% value reference. Then, you can use the $Context.BindToObjectByDN() method to bind to the user and get the properties you need, for example:

try
{
    $referenceUser = $Context.BindToObjectByDN("%assistant%")
}
catch
{
    # An error occurred
    $Context.LogMessage($_.Exception.Message, "Warning")
    return
}

# Output reference user name
$referenceUserName = $referenceUser.Get("cn")
$Context.LogMessage($referenceUserName, "Information")

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Hello, this is fine. Thank you.