Texas A&M University - Infrastructure Services

Employee/Affiliate Primary Department (tamuDepartmentName)

Definition: Name of department with which the employee is currently associated.

For employees with multiple appointments, this is the department of their primary appointment.
Attribute Name: 'tamuDepartmentName'
OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.4391.0.100
URN: urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.4391.0.100
Object Class: tamuEmployee, tamuOtherFeed
Required: no
Multiple Values: Multi-valued
Format: Directory String {256}
Controlled Vocabulary: not applicable
Source: If present in BPP feed => BPP department name. The department name is that associated with the EmpLoc code defined in the personnel record.
If not present in BPP feed and present in AMFD => AMFD department name.
If not present in BPP feed and present in HSCSTU => HSCSTU department name.
If not present in BPP feed and present in HSC => HSC department name.
If not present in BPP feed and present in RSFD => RSFD department name.
If not present in BPP feed and present in AFS => AFS department name.
If not present in BPP feed and present in USDA => USDA department name.
Indexing: Presence (pres): Improves searches for entries that contain the indexed attribute.
Equality (eq): Improves searches for entries that contain an attribute that is set to a specific value.
Search Syntax: EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
Access: If tamuEduSuppress is set to administrative, name, or studentEmployment, account owner has read access, and everyone else has no access.
Otherwise, account owner, authenticated users, and nonauthenticated (anonymous) users have read access.
Usage: white pages
Example(s): Computing Information Services