[Freeipa-users] How to add multivalued attribute to UI

[Rob Crittenden]

John Duino wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I am wanting to add a multivalued attribute (mailAlternateAddress, from objectClass:MailRecipient) to the User UI. We are running IPA 4.1.0-18.el7.centos.4.x86_64, on CentOS7. Adding it to the CLI was fairly straightforward.
> I have a plugin at /usr/share/ipa/ui/js/plugins/altemail/altemail.js that I basically copied/hacked from some other docs/example I found. Two problems:
> 1) It will only show the first entry of mailAlternateAddress it finds (which I assume is a limitation of the get_item() function.)
> 2) While it inserts a text box in the UI in the Contacts section, it does not have the same ADD and DELETE buttons that, say, the 'mail' attribute has.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated! Here is the plugin:
> define([
>         'freeipa/phases',
>         'freeipa/user'],
>         function(phases, user_mod) {
> 
> //helper function
> function get_item(array, attr, value) {
> 
>         for (var i=0,l=array.length; i<l; i++) {
>                 if (array[i][attr] === value) return array[i];
>         }
>         return null;
> }
> 
> var altemail_plugin = {};
> 
> // adds 'mailalternateaddress' field into user details facet
> altemail_plugin.add_altemail_pre_op = function() {
> 
>         var facet = get_item(user_mod.entity_spec.facets, '$type', 'details');
>         var section = get_item(facet.sections, 'name', 'contact');
>         section.fields.push({
>                 type: 'multivalued',
>                 name: 'mailalternateaddress',
>                 label: 'E-mail Alias'
>         });
>         return true;
> };
> 
> phases.on('customization', altemail_plugin.add_altemail_pre_op);
> 
> return altemail_plugin;
> });
> 

Do you have this configured in the user plugin? Perhaps some other piece
of the UI is confused because of either a missing or misconfigured value
for the attribute in the metadata.

If you do, how is the param configured?

rob