# Edit attributes in identity profile of sailpoint identityNow **URL:** \ **Category:** SHF Discussion and Questions\ **Tags:** attributes, sailpoint-identity-security\ **Created:** [November 21, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428 "2024-11-21T12:44:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soundary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Soundary](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/Soundary)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/1 "2024-11-21T12:44:52Z")
Hi everyone, Reaching out to everyone for some suggestions on how to edit the attributes under identity profiles. The visual studio dont support this approach nor the UI. So any suggestion on how to add lastabclogin to lastabclogin Date Type? Thanks in advance Regards, Soundarya ---
**Author:** ![nikhlesh21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/nikhlesh21/32/11800_2.png) [@nikhlesh21](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/nikhlesh21)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/2 "2024-11-21T14:17:00Z")
HI @Soundary, I don’t think we can update the Identity attribute Data type. What is your use case? probably anything can be done. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![mabhavsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@mabhavsa](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/mabhavsa)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/3 "2024-11-21T14:19:56Z")
You can try using ISC plugin in VS Code. I tried once and it worked for me. ---
**Author:** ![sagar\_kamalakar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/sagar_kamalakar/32/18893_2.png) [@sagar\_kamalakar](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/sagar_kamalakar)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/4 "2024-11-21T15:05:44Z")
@Soundary Yes, we can only edit ‘displayName’ and ‘type’ attribute values from ISC VS code plugin. But you cannot change the ‘name’ field. ---
**Author:** ![sk8er23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/sk8er23/32/19357_2.png) [@sk8er23](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/sk8er23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/5 "2024-11-23T02:54:28Z")
Could you explain with an example what you are trying to do, ui allows add/remove etc as desired other methods like api -names have to be unique so you may need to add a new attribute configured as you want and remove the old. ---
**Author:** ![Soundary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Soundary](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/Soundary)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 8:59am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/6 "2024-11-26T08:59:30Z")
Hi Nikhlesh, We currently have some attributes created which are lastawslogin and needs to be changed to lastawslogin Date Type but thats not possible from the ISC plugin of VS. It shows the the below error Error: The request was syntactically correct but its content is semantically invalid.) Regards, Soundarya ---
**Author:** ![Soundary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Soundary](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/Soundary)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/7 "2024-11-26T09:00:06Z")
Hi Anthony, We currently have some attributes created which are lastawslogin and needs to be changed to lastawslogin Date Type but thats not possible from the ISC plugin of VS. It shows the the below error Error: The request was syntactically correct but its content is semantically invalid.) Regards, Soundarya [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![Soundary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Soundary](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/Soundary)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/8 "2024-11-26T09:00:59Z")
Hi Sagar, Is this any other way to change the name? ---
**Author:** ![Soundary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Soundary](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/Soundary)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:01am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/9 "2024-11-26T09:01:35Z")
Hi Manan, I have already used that approach and that doesn’t seem to work. ---
**Author:** ![sk8er23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/sk8er23/32/19357_2.png) [@sk8er23](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/sk8er23)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/10 "2024-11-26T09:12:32Z")
This this is limited by the current API’s, the name is the Sailpoint internal technical name and must be unique. It isn’t currently possible to change the name, you will need to create a new attribute and remap to achieve this. Hope this helps ---
**Author:** ![schattopadhy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/schattopadhy/32/8854_2.png) [@schattopadhy](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/schattopadhy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:32am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/11 "2024-11-26T09:32:06Z")
@Soundary You can try using the rest API for the same ---
**Author:** ![sk8er23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/sk8er23/32/19357_2.png) [@sk8er23](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/sk8er23)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 9:40am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/12 "2024-11-26T09:40:16Z")
Hi @schattopadhy That won’t help VS plugin utilises the same API so will have the same controls. ---
**Author:** ![nikhlesh21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/nikhlesh21/32/11800_2.png) [@nikhlesh21](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/nikhlesh21)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/13 "2024-11-26T14:23:25Z")
Any specific reason why you cannot remove existing and create new attribute? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/original/2X/f/f2136700ed5e3703e0b85e02f6be799dacca7735.png) [@system](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/edit-attributes-in-identity-profile-of-sailpoint-identitynow/90428/14 "2025-01-25T14:23:54Z")
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