# Attribute Sync Limitation

**URL:** <https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/attribute-sync-limitation/97489>\
**Category:** SHF Discussion and Questions\
**Tags:** provisioning, identity-security-cloud\
**Created:** [January 13, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/attribute-sync-limitation/97489 "2025-01-13T14:36:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![poison001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5a626/32.png) [@poison001](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/poison001)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/attribute-sync-limitation/97489/1 "2025-01-13T14:36:00Z")

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Can someone assist with a problem? We have two types of employees, Contractors, and Employees, each with a valid email address in both SailPoint and AD. However, we need to prevent the email addresses of Teachers from being pushed to Workday (our authoritative source); only Employees’ email addresses should sync to Workday. Currently, we are using attribute synchronization to sync the email address attribute to Workday.

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**Author:** ![KRM7](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/krm7/32/2685_2.png) [@KRM7](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/KRM7)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/attribute-sync-limitation/97489/2 "2025-01-13T14:45:36Z")

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You cannot limit the sync.

Create one more Identity attribute for email, build a transform in such a way that, for teachers email should be same as email at Workday, then there wont be any sync for teachers at all.

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**Author:** ![margocbain](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/margocbain/32/17314_2.png) [@margocbain](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/margocbain)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/attribute-sync-limitation/97489/3 "2025-01-13T14:46:31Z")

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Hi Deepak, a couple recommendations

1. Separate out Employees and Teaches into 2 Workday sources and only enable attribute synchronization for Employees
2. Create another attribute on the identity level for emails and create a transform, in that transform set the value to empty if it is a teacher and use that Attribute to push back to Workday.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/original/2X/f/f2136700ed5e3703e0b85e02f6be799dacca7735.png) [@system](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/attribute-sync-limitation/97489/4 "2025-03-14T14:47:17Z")

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