Reference UI Assigned Identity Attribute in Transforms

We ended up utilizing one transform with logic similar to the way recommended in this post Lookup Transform - Default Value - #10 by nsorlien

Taking the Substing functionality of taking the implicit input we were able to reference those values in our final output value.

{
    "name": "employmentCheck",
    "type": "static",
    "attributes": {
        "lifecycle": {
            "type": "reference",
            "attributes": {
                "id": "Workday Lifecycle"
            }
        },
        "empValue": {
            "type": "firstValid",
            "attributes": {
                "values": [
                    {
                        "attributes": {
                            "begin": 0
                        },
                        "type": "substring"
                    },
                    "none"
                ]
            }
        },
        "value": "#if($lifecycle == 'activestudent')#{else}$empValue#end"
    },
    "internal": false
}