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Applications
Attributes can be used with application shortcuts, an attribute can be created as below which defines a
hostname and a port number.
Here the attribute VNC Server is a defined by each user, specifying which server they wish to connect
to when using the VNC application shortcut.
The VNC application shortcut is configured to use this new attribute:
Whenever the application shortcut is executed, the system takes the current user’s vncServer attribute
and uses the value as the hostname to connect to.
Each user can define their own vncServer attribute to point to whichever server they wish to connect
to. Thus for every user the application shortcut works differently, connecting to a different server
without any further modification.
Web Forwards
The flexibility of user attributes also means they can be used in Web forwards. An example is a Web
Site such as a support site which requires a form to authenticate users.
A standard username attribute cannot be used as the FORM has a drop-down list for user as opposed to
a text field.
So here a user attributes is defined which specifies the associated user’s ID. Two new attributes are
defined which are confidential to the user only and specify the Username Id for the user and their
password.