idNowDescription attribute

Identity Security Cloud (ISC) ISC Discussion and Questions
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Can someone provide insight on the purpose of the idNowDescription attribute that we see in one of our sources?

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Hi Mike - The purpose of source description attribute is essentially to get a quick glimpse of what the source is all about, for example if an organization has multiple AD sources configured with ISC (1 for AU domain, 1 for NZ,1 just for AD admins from AU and 1 for AD NZ admins etc. ) - admins can write a snippet in the description of those sources for other admins/helpdesk staff to quickly refer to.

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This is to add more detail about source . You will see this attribute in many other object too .

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Thanks for the responses. I looks like I wasn’t clear in what I was asking.

We are seeing it as an attribute on all of the accounts coming from a source, however it isn’t defined in our account schema nor does it appear in a csv output.

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can you share the screenshot of the source file and the account / identity data

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Here is a subset of the attributes on the source. Note that this is a flat file source, we did not define this attribute, and I see it on other sources as well, including Workday.

    "attributes": {
        "LOCATION": "Austin Office",
        "EMPLOYEE_ID": "000000",
        "POSITION_TITLE": "Enterprise Architect",
        "STATE": "USA-TX",
        "COST_CENTER": "Enterprise Technology",
        "L3_DEPARTMENT": "Enterprise Architecture",
        "FUTURE_L3_DEPARTMENT": "Enterprise Architecture",
        "idNowDescription": "5aacb4bd0be71539debe117fdfa3e4e01fea6f33476f45e85cf9ea7c632b0987",
        "IS_MANAGER": "Manager",
        "FUTURE_L2_DEPARTMENT": "Enterprise Technology",
        "JOBTITLE": "Enterprise Architect"
    },
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Hey @Mike_Trachta

So I don’t see any documentation on this attribute but it does seem to be common, see this thread:

IdentityNow - Update Account API - Identity Security Cloud (ISC) / ISC Discussion and Questions - SailPoint Developer Community

I would assume it’s an internal identifier of some sort.

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Hi Mike,
Typically “idNowDescription” refers to an internal system attribute that is automatically generated or utilized by IdentityNow for certain purposes to hold metadata or descriptive information about an identity or account.

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