I am trying to use built-in functions in flow definition to extract a specific attribute from distinguished name and want to be able to do something like:Right(Word(dn, 1, <my delim>),4)How do I do that in one step?Thanks.AnuAnu

Hi Anu! Haven't you tried using custom expressions: http://blogs.technet.com/doittoit/archive/2008/08/07/if.aspx And here's a great reference over the available functions: http://www.ilmbestpractices.com/blog/2009/01/ilm-2-functions-explained.html Unfortunately I'm not sure it work's with reference values and there's no conversion functions but if you're able to apply the word function on a DN there shouldn't be any problems. //Henrik Henrik Nilsson Blog: http://www.idmcrisis.com Company: Cortego (http://www.cortego.se)

Tac-k Henrik.. no luck yet with using custom expression but great to know that there is a possiblity there and avoid the miis/ilm type rules ext.Wondering too if there is a way to extend the library of functions to include some of my commonly used custom functions.-AnuAnu

Hi Anu! Not yet... but I do hope we can get it with RTM, I've made a feature request about this to the Connect site and you can read more about it here or visit the post at Connect . Edit: Don't forget to give a vote for the Custom Sync Rule functions feature request at the Connect site if you think it could be useful :-) ...Not to forget there is always an option to use Workflow even thought it's a lot more complicated than simply creating your own function but one must understand that functions are called from the sync engine and therefore must follow the same rules as legacy sync rules... //Henrik Henrik Nilsson Blog: http://www.idmcrisis.com Company: Cortego (http://www.cortego.se)