RamR.79845 (Customer) asked a question.
Add a custom attribute to a application
I would like to create a new attribute for a SAML-based app. Attribute name Title as "superuser". The issue is that it is already assigned to the user's designation. In profile, the Title is coming as Sr. Network Engineer .... etc.
App doc link: Configuring Okta Admin SSO - Mist, where in the user's profile, the Title is coming as "superuser". I don't want to change the Title to an OKTA Profile, but it should map only in the application. I tried to create a custom attribute in Profile Editor for this app., but in mapping preview, it is taking the user's default title from OKTA USER Profile.
How can I accomplish this???
@RamR.79845 (Customer) not sure what document you mean and if it is an okta documentation you can refer here.
But as far as the mapping goes, you can always create custom attribute.
Call it 'role'
In saml settings configure name as Role and value as user.role
Make sure custom attribute role has the value superuser
Hello @RamR.79845 (Customer) , thank you for contacting Okta Community.
We have a few articles on defining custom attributes and mapping them to another app in the Okta Docs library:
Define Custom Application Attributes
Manage application attributes
Map Okta attributes to app attributes in the Profile Editor
You may want to try naming the second Title attribute something a bit different, like AppTitle or AdminTitle. This way, there won't be two distinct attributes with the same name.
Regards.
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For SAML apps i belive the attributes map directly from the okta profile. you can try to create an attribute on just the SAML profile and map it and refer to it as appuser.title to see if that works