Use a Conditional Statement When Configuring an LDAP Directory in Crowd?

Question

In Crowd 2.3 or newer, I have a Directory configured using LDAP (Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition). On the COnfiguration tab, the field first name, last name etc get LDAP attribute like 'givenName' ,'sn', etc.

Is it poossible to use a conditional statement somehow in these field tyo pull in one field and if it is blank use another?

For example :

In our LDAP we have givenName (representing first name) and otherName (representing the shorter variant of a preferred name - i.e. Bob instead of Robert).

Is it possible to use a conditional to specify to use otherName unless it is blank then user givenName?

JustinK · Answer

Sorry for the slow reply. Yes, the only option at the moment is to extend the Crowd source, there is no 'out of the box' solution to this issue at present, unless there is a way in your LDAP server to provide this type of functionality (which I don't think there is)

Adam Myatt2 · Answer

So this would be accomplished through custom coding or extending existing code in Crowd? There is no way out of the box without having to code something?

Adam Myatt2 · Answer

So this would be accomplished through custom coding or extending existing code in Crowd? There is no way out of the box without having to code something?