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  yonah

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  I can add a property just fine, but I can't 'Edit'

  Aug 13, 2003 06:41 PM|LINK

  Here is my dilemma. Our company has three levels of user - Exec, Staff, and Nonperson (i.e. an account that represents a role and not an individual - such as 'administrator'). Currently this information is in nested groups - i.e. there is an 'Exec' group that contains 'ny-exec' and 'la-exec', etc. I wrote a script that set the 'employeeType' attribute for members of one of these groups. This code worked fine, here is a snippet:

  Dim type As String = IIf(exec.Checked, "Executive", "Staff")
  Dim individual As DirectoryEntry = root
  'Root is the person's DE from a higher level function
  
  
  individual.AuthenticationType = AuthenticationTypes.Secure
  
  
  'user and pass are valid for an administrator of the domain
  individual.Username = user
  individual.Password = pass
  
  
  individual.Properties("employeeType").Add(type)

  The employeeType attribute gets set properly However, when I try to update this feature, by replacing the bolded line above with:

  individual.Properties("employeeType").value=type

  I get the following error:The Active Directory datatype cannot be converted to/from a native DS datatype Anyone have any advice?
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  dunnry

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  Re: I can add a property just fine, but I can't 'Edit'

  Aug 13, 2003 08:10 PM|LINK

  Not sure what you are passing in for the 'type' variable in your code. The attribute 'employeeType' is of Unicode String, so make sure you are passing a string there. Instead of setting the .Value, try the following and it should fix it for you:

  if(individual.Properties.Contains("employeeType"))
  {
       individual.Properties("employeeType")(0) = type
  }

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