Re: [Unity-idm-discuss] strange behaviour setting maximum number of values for an attribute

[Sander A. <sa....@fz...>]

Dear Roman,
I added the answers inline.

On Mon, 2025-12-15 at 11:08 +0100, Roman Krysiński wrote:
> Dear Sander,
> 
> This does look like something we should be able to reproduce, but
> we’ll need a bit more information to properly understand what’s
> happening and identify the root cause.
> 
> Could you please help us with the following details:
> 
> 1. Where exactly was the attribute value viewed?
> When you say “Viewing this attribute of a user”, could you clarify
> what UI/view (or API) you used?
The attribute was viewed in the directory browser of the console
endpoint.
> 
> 2. Attribute type configuration: Could you share more details about
> the attribute type itself?
> A screenshot of the Attribute Type configuration would be ideal.
Is attached.
> 
> 3. Attribute statements setup: A screenshot of the “Edit attribute
> statement” dialog for the relevant statements would be very helpful.
Added as well. I just add one of four attribute statements. The other
one are just working and adding another attribute.

I also just recognize there is another bug in the attribute statements.
When I edit it, the tick box for use attribute from extra group is
selected, although it was not selected before.

Best regards,
Sander
> 
> With this information, we should be able to reproduce the issue and
> determine whether this is a configuration problem or a bug in Unity
> 4.1.1.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> Roman
> 
> pon., 15 gru 2025 o 08:58 Roman Krysiński <ro...@au...>
> napisał(a):
> > Dear Sander,
> > 
> > This does look like something we should be able to reproduce, but
> > we’ll need a bit more information to properly understand what’s
> > happening and identify the root cause.
> > 
> > Could you please help us with the following details:
> > 
> > 1. Where exactly was the attribute value viewed?
> > When you say “Viewing this attribute of a user”, could you clarify
> > what UI/view (or API) you used?
> > 
> > 2. Attribute type configuration: Could you share more details about
> > the attribute type itself?
> > A screenshot of the Attribute Type configuration would be ideal.
> > 
> > 3. Attribute statements setup: A screenshot of the “Edit attribute
> > statement” dialog for the relevant statements would be very
> > helpful.
> > 
> > With this information, we should be able to reproduce the issue and
> > determine whether this is a configuration problem or a bug in Unity
> > 4.1.1.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Roman
> > 
> > wt., 9 gru 2025 o 16:39 Sander Apweiler <sa....@fz...>
> > napisał(a):
> > > Dear Kryzsztof,
> > > dear Roman,
> > > 
> > > TL;DR: max number of values is always 1 or unlimited.
> > > 
> > > we found some strange behaviour when limiting the maximum numbers
> > > of
> > > value other to one. We created an attribute with type string and
> > > set
> > > min number of values to 1, max number of values to 5. We created
> > > 4
> > > attribute statements which fill this attribute with values.
> > > Viewing
> > > this attribute of an user, which should contain two values, it
> > > contains
> > > only one value. Disabling the attribute statement of the shown
> > > values,
> > > makes appearing the second expected value. After enabling the
> > > first
> > > attribute statement, makes the first value appearing, the second
> > > is
> > > gone. After setting the number of values to unlimited in the
> > > Attribute
> > > types, both expected values appears. It seems unity ignores the
> > > number
> > > of max values but checks only if it is set to unlimited. We found
> > > this
> > > issue on unity 4.1.1.
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Sander
> > > 

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