Custom User Attributes
You can use custom user attributes in your user-based organizational structures. These custom attributes enable you to provide additional information for users that you add to your organizational structures—whether you add the users manually or via LDAP import. These custom user attributes can be used, for example, to identify contract employees working within your organization.
These custom user attributes can be used in reporting. You can also use the custom attributes when adding user-based organizational structures using XML. See Sample XML: User Organizational Structure for the syntax.
Providing User-Friendly Custom User-Attribute Names
You can provide user-friendly names for the custom user attributes using the Custom User-Attribute Names page. After you update the user-attribute names, the names that you provide are used on the Add User and LDAP Domain Association and Mapping pages.
Note:If you use XML to add or update a user-based organizational structure, you must use the syntax provided in the example, Sample XML: User Organizational Structure, to specify custom user attributes: custom1, custom2, and so on. The user-friendly names you provide using the Custom User-Attribute Names page are used in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications user interface, and are not for use in XML.
To define custom user attributes:
| 1. | From the Reporting tab, under the Organizational Structures section, click Custom User-Attribute Names. This opens the Custom User-Attribute Names page. |
| 2. | In the text boxes, type or edit the names you want to use for the custom user attributes. (You can provide up to 13 custom user-attribute names.) |
| 3. | Click Save. |
See Also
Importing Organizational-Structure Data from LDAP