Provisioning rich profiles

The capabilities in Okta to enrich user profiles within provisioning are big. One example of a feature that will help you is Okta Expression Language. It is based on Spring Expression Language (SpEL), with which you can transform and query objects at runtime. With Expression Language, you can make changes to attributes and reference them before storing them on the Okta user, or before sending them to an application for authentication or provisioning. There is a lot of information on this topic, and going through all of it is outside the scope of this book. What we will do, however, is look at the most commonly used categories and examples of them. If you have any other needs within your organization, you can find more information here: https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/okta-expression-language/. To be able to look into these topics, we need some basic knowledge. All users have an Okta profile, independent of how the user is sourced. In addition to...