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• updated via synchronization from external resources
• available for propagation towards external resources

Read-only

Read-only attribute value(s) cannot be changed via standard operations (e.g. REST, synchronization from external resources, ...). Such attributes are reserved for internal usage, so their value(s) can be changed only in the underlying DBMS or from inside the workflow.

Derived attributes

Sometimes it is handful to obtain values as arbitrary combination of other attributes' values: for example, with 'Firstname' and 'Surname' plain attributes, it is natural to think that 'Fullname' could be somehow defined as the concatenation of Firstname's and Surname's values, separated by a blank space.

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• unaffected by synchronization
• available for propagation towards external resources

Read-only

When attribute value(s) from an external resource are needed only to be read within Syncope, and can only be changed from the own resource, virtual read-only attributes are fit for the job.

Schema

An attribute schema describes the values that attributes with that schema will held:

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