Business rule to adjust a custom property on user upon adding or removing that user from a group.

Question

Hello,

I am attempting to configure a business rule that adjusts an adaxes custom property of a user, upon that user being added/removed from a group. I cannot seem to find the right way to go about this. I have tried setting it up from the group perspective, and using the %adm-memberUserName% to pull the user and my target custom variable I wish to change is %adm-CustomAttributeBoolean20%, but I cannot get anything to interact with or change this variable. I am not sure how to reference a custom variable properly when trying to adjust it based on my criteria above. Can support/anyone help me? What is the proper way to reference custom values so I may manipulate them when scripting in powershell? I apologize if this is in your FAQs or Documentation, I cannot find it. There is plenty on referencing normal values, (like username, office, description, email, etc.) but not so much on custom attributes.

Answer 1

Hello,

Value references work the same for all types of objects and properties. The following article should be helpful: https://www.adaxes.com/help/ValueReferences. At the same time, you need to pay attention what the target object is. In your case, it is a group, not the member being added. The behavior is by design and comes from AD. The thing is that when you add/remove a member from a group, it is the group being updated, not the member. As such, if you need to update a property of a member being added to a group in your business rule, you should have a script like below. In the script:

• $propertyToUpdate - Specifies the name of the property to update for the member.
• $propertyValue - Specifies the value to be set for the member property.

$propertyToUpdate = "adm-CustomAttributeBoolean20" # TODO: modify me
$propertyValue = $True # TODO: modify me

# Bind to the member
$member = $Context.BindToObject("Adaxes://%member%")

# Update member
$member.Put($propertyToUpdate, $propertyValue)
$member.SetInfo()