Passing attribute with whitespace value

[Christopher Bongaarts]

We used a similar workaround back when we used WebEx; I think we used a 
scripted attribute to substitute a "-" for given name if none was 
present.  We did this as a custom attribute that was only sent to WebEx 
so it would not corrupt non-broken systems.

On 8/1/2022 10:22 AM, Morgan, Andrew J via users wrote:
> Hi Warren,
>
> Here at Oregon State University, we set the person's firstname to "." 
> (period) when the person has no firstname.  I'm guessing firstname was 
> a required field back in the 1990s when OSU implemented Banner.
>
> Andy
>
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> Hi Peter,
>
> We are currently working with HR on evaluating ways of displaying 
> users who have no first name. We currently are receiving FNU from HR, 
> but many downstream systems has expressed issues with it. Leaving it 
> blank would create issues for other systems. I guess the overall 
> problem is probably something I can ask in an InCommon mailing list.
>
> Thanks
>
> Warren
>
> *From: *users <users-bounces at shibboleth.net> on behalf of Peter 
> Schober via users <users at shibboleth.net>
> *Date: *Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 12:51 PM
> *To: *users at shibboleth.net <users at shibboleth.net>
> *Cc: *Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at>
> *Subject: *Re: Passing attribute with whitespace value
>
> * Mark Scarbrough <scarbrom at uci.edu> [2022-07-28 16:30]:
> > We have a use case where we are trying to pass a value of a single
> > space in an attribute.
>
> Maybe I'll regret even askig but would you care to share what that use
> case is or rather how a single space can convey the required semantics
> (not not any other non-whitespace character)?
>
> -peter
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