Can the Name Normalizer transform be edited?

Identity Security Cloud (ISC) ISC Discussion and Questions
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Does anybody know if the Name Normalizer transform can automatically remove accent marks (i.e. Colón = Colon)?

Also, I tested this transform and it seemed to work for many of my uses cases but one of my user’s last name had changed when it shouldn’t have been (i.e. Macasek = MacAsek) I understand the transform saw the ‘Mac’ and performed it’s predetermined action but is there a way to edit either the transform itself or write in an exception for an individual?

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Thanks for your question, @colonm; that “productized” transform doesn’t have much configurability around it, but we have a “Cloud Services Deployment Utility” rule installed in all tenants that has a more customizable version of it.

this transform shows how you can use that particular utility:

//normalizeName
{
    "attributes": {
        "name": "Cloud Services Deployment Utility",
        "operation": "normalizeName",
        "input": {
            "type": "trim"
        },
        "delimiters": [
            "-",
            " ",
            "\\'"
        ],
        "patterns": "\\b(Mc|Mac|O'|D'|L')",
        "replacements": {
            "\\b(?:De)\\b": "de",
            "\\b(?:Del)\\b": "del",
            "\\b(?:Ii)\\b": "II",
            "\\b(?:Iii)\\b": "III",
            "\\b(?:Iv)\\b": "IV",
            "\\b(?:La)\\b": "la",
            "\\b(?:Mc )\\b": "Mc",
            "\\b(?:Of)\\b": "of",
            "\\b(?:Von)\\b": "von",
            "\\b(?:Y)\\b": "y"
        }
    },
    "id": "Test normalizeName",
    "type": "rule"
}

the patterns attribute essentially tells the transform where to capitalize a substring of a string

and the replacements entry tells the transform which input text to replace with which output text

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@colonm you can try using the following example to replace accent marks:

{
    "id": "Normalise Surname",
    "type": "decomposeDiacriticalMarks",
    "attributes": {
        "input": {
            "type": "replaceAll",
            "attributes": {
                "table": {
                    "\u00e6": "ae",
                    "\u00fc": "ue",
                    "\u00df": "ss"
                },
                "input": {
                    "attributes": {
                        "attributeName": "LAST_NAME",
                        "sourceName": "Workday"
                    },
                    "type": "accountAttribute"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

This example does the following:

  • Replace Unicode characters with simple text
  • Input for this action is the LAST_NAME attribute from Workday source
  • Use the primitive operation to replace a preset range of Unicode characters
  • Use the table to match other Unicode characters; replace each with text string
  • https://www.utf8-chartable.de/

Based on the link above, U+00F3 is the unicode representation of ‘o’ with an accent mark.

4

I’ll try that…thanks.

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I’ll test that and see how it works…thanks.

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7

Hi Colin. Is there anyway I can get my hands on all the features available in the “Cloud Services Deployment Utility”. I have been raking the community and the developer site, but haven’t been able to find it.

Regards,

Raoon

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@rkunditch

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Guys, how to change the account names from this “EVERSON DE OLIVEIRA CARDOSO” to “Everson de Oliveira Cardoso”?
Using the name transformer

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Hey, for that specific purpose you can just use Name Normalizer | SailPoint Developer Community out of the box, there’s examples provided in the article.