Extended Identity Manager User Attributes

Question

Howdy,
I'm trying to add some attributes to the user accounts stored local to the Identity Manager. I went to the configure menu, and set up the attributes under the Identity Attributes tab. I set the attributes to be stored locally and saved them. I also made sure to indicate that the attributes should be available to the IDM admin and end user interfaces. However, the attributes do not show up when I list the users. When I go to the users attribute tab, it contains only the Account ID attribute. Shouldn't I be able to add a new attribute and edit it?
Much thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Answer 1

It is an XML object so I dont think it has a limit as such, though the system will get slower to checkout and checkin if you overextend it.
there usually isn't any reason to extend it extensivly... I believe it stores most of that, if the querable flag is set at least, in the user attributes table
if you need a lot of data connected to a user you could always have an extra table and store it in, you dont need to store everything in the user object unless you need it every time the user is checked in/out etc etc