Transformation Engine - Extract Managers name from DN string

Version Affected:  All

Description:  

In Active Directory, a Users Manager is stored as a distinguished name. 

Eg: CN=Manager Name,OU=IT,OU=Users,OU=York,DC=Example,DC=com

If you wish to include the Managers name in your Saml assertion, just the name and not the whole DN makes more sense and this KB will show you how to exact that name from the DN

Cause:  

Active Directory standards

Resolution:  

1. Choose an AuxID to use for the profile field mapping. In my example, I am using AuxID3.

2. On the Post Auth Tab, enable the Transformation Engine and edit it

3. Edit the AuxID3 section of the transformation engine code. 

<AuxID3>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(substring-before(user/AuxID3, ','),'CN=')"/>
</AuxID3>

4. Save the changes and test.

An example XSLT is attached to this KB Article. 

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