Blackboard Transact, SSO and use of attribute friendly-name

[Schwoerer, Bradley J]

I was wondering how many people have integrated with Blackboard Transact.  It seems straight forward, but a bit odd if I am understanding their documentation.   According to their documentation they are making use of the SAML2 attribute friendly-name.  For people that have implemented this product, is that truly the case.  For others, is that something that other apps are doing?  To me it seems wrong, but wanted to get others perspective.  Here is an excerpt of their documentation:


Blackboard Transact SP requires that the attributes required for mapping into the Blackboard Transact system be the following where the attribute friendly name cannot be changed as this is what Blackboard Transact SP uses to map the data returned:

Depending on your institution's information policies you may need to adjust the information in the attribute- filter.xml file to release the attributes to the Transact SP Service.

<resolver:AttributeDefinition xsi:type="ad:Simple" id="email" sourceAttributeID="mail">

<resolver:Dependency ref="myLDAP" />

<resolver:AttributeEncoder xsi:type="enc:SAML1String" name="urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:mail" />

<resolver:AttributeEncoder xsi:type="enc:SAML2String"name="urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3" friendly- Name="BbSPEmailAddress" />

</resolver:AttributeDefinition>



Bradley Schwoerer