Can't update attributes during creation?

Questions
1

I’m testing out the user creation through the Users API, but the API seems to disregard anything in the body except:

“firstName”:
“lastName”:
“email”:
“login”:

This isn’t very good as I’m trying to make a custom registration form that would create the user in Okta with all needed attributes…

Am I doing some thing wrong or is this working as intended?

2

Are you using the variable names for the additional attributes you are trying to set? Are you setting custom attributes, or other built-in ones?

3

I tried both. Custom ones I created to the profile and built-in ones, but only the ones that you can provide when you manually create a user through the GUI, actually get updated.

4

@tommi.heinix I tried to create a user with a custom attribute and I got the following error:

“errorSummary”: “Property name ‘custom_attribute’ is not defined in profile”

Are you getting the same error? Looks like we can’t add a new attribute (on creation) that’s not already in the user profile first.

5

Hello,

no, I don’t get any errors, the POST message completes succesfully.
If I do this by using Postman, I can see from the response that it has added all the attributes that I defined, but when I go the GUI to see the user, I don’t see anything populated except the ones I mention in my post.

And just to clarify; I’m not creating any new attributes to the profile, I am just trying to add VALUES to the ones I have set up in my default profile.

6

Thanks for clarifying @tommi.heinix. Unfortunately, I’m not able to repro the issue on my end. Please open a support ticket so one of our support team members can take a closer look - Okta Help Center (Lightning).

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