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Hi Mark,

I'm in the Importing User Attributes boat as well. personDirectory.xml is where you set up the link to get data out of Banner. I'd be willing to send you my version which documents our changes (need email address or way to post it here). I've also written a PL*Sql function on the Banner side (called in personDirectory.xml) which has immutable id as the argument and returns the luminis login id which we store in gobtpac_external_id. With gobtpac_pidm we can join to many tables in Banner to get attributes for a luminis user.

My problem is getting a dynamic drop down list on the luminis side when selecting user attributes in creating a targeted audience.

Here is my question to Sungard:

For the LDAP user attributes there is a drop down box that is dynamically created (like for majors) when building a targeted audience. It doesn't seem to work the same way with user attributes from Banner.

I set up a Banner attribute for campus code, making the "values" area in my attributeCampusConfig bean the same as attributeAcademicMajoorConfig. The comment in attributeAcademicMajorConfig is:

And they are. I would like to know how to code the config bean for my campus code attribute (Banner RDB atttribute) so that a drop down box of campus codes will be created dynamically when setting up a targeted audience. There is no drop down box for this one.
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Here is Sungard's reply:

In case of
com.pipeline.uportal.persondir.AcademicMajorAttributeConfig is a predefined class (extends ReferencePersonAttributeConfig)
which retrieves a map of (key,value) for Majors from LDAP.

If you want to dynamically retrieve values for bean “attributeCampusConfig” then you would require to define your own custom class.

Example:

public class CampusAttributeConfig extends ReferencePersonAttributeConfig
{
public CampusAttributeConfig()
{
super();
}
public Map getValues()
{
// code to retrieve map(key,value) for attributeCampusConfig from
// RDB goes here..
};
}

Let me know if you have any further questions.
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Mark, or anybody, do you have sample java code that connects to Banner and retrieves data?

Thanks,

Dean