<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I’m stumped by the following in the documentation for integration of BlackBoard Transact with Shibboleth:<div>
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<div class="column"><p></p><blockquote type="cite"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">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:</span></p></blockquote><p><font face="Calibri" size="2">Then a bunch of standard attributes are given, with unusual “friendlyName”s like:</font></p><div>
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</span></pre></blockquote></div><div class="column">Is there a way I can encode and release these standard attributes with the unusual friendlyNames short of creating a bunch of shadow attributes that differ from the norm only by id and friendlyName?</div><div class="column"><br></div><div class="column">Is it me, or does this represent a bizarre SAML implementation?</div><div class="column"><br></div><div class="column">David Bantz</div><div class="column">UAlaksa</div>
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