What is the difference between Identity Attribute and Display Attribute

IdentityIQ (IIQ) IIQ Discussion and Questions
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Hi all,

What is the difference between Identity Attribute and Display Attribute in the schema.

What are the significance of these two when it comes correlation and how an account looks like in the UI?

Thanks in advance

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Hi @rishavghoshacc ,

Welcome to SailPoint developer community

This detailed document on the SailPoint developer community will help you to get the difference you looking for

Thanks in advance

Avinash Mulpuru

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Hi @rishavghoshacc

This is a basic question.

Identity Attribute is unique key or id. for example: distinguishedName (AD), Employee_ID/Employee_Number (HR), UUID (Database), Primary_Key_ID

Display Attribute is user friendly name what is displayed on the UI, Does not strictly need to be unique.
for exmaple: displayName, Full_Name , Username, sAMAccountName, email

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Attaching few more resources

Difference between Identity Attribute and Display Attribute.pdf (793.0 KB)

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@rishavghoshacc This is nice documentation (shared by Avinash the developer portal link) that I created. Please go through it step by step and run those test cases you will get more clear idea about. Feel free to comment on it if you need any help or more understand on it.

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Display Attribute in IIQ is utilized mainly for displaying purpose in IIQ Identity Warehouse page whereas Identity attribute is how the data is stored in the xml for an identity object.