General Standards
  • 30 Mar 2022
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General Standards

Proper Use of Core and Custom Schema Definitions

  • Do not store values in a core schema that doesn’t describe the data.  For example, don’t store a job code value in the physicalDeliveryOfficeName attribute.

Storing Employee and Student IDs

  • Use the employeeID attribute for storing employee IDs and student IDs.
  • If there is a chance of overlap, add a prefix of E for employees or S for students.  Store the original value in the employeeNumber attribute.  For example, an employee with an employee ID of 1234 would have employeeID=E1234 and employeeNumber=1234.

Use of Quotations

  • Always use double quotes (“) when referring to strings

Referring to Record Field Values

  • Always refer to record fields using record[‘field’] syntax.  (i.e. refrain from using record.field)
  • Using consistent syntax helps everyone understand the usage.
    • record[‘givenName’].toUpperCase()  <-- standard
    • record.givenName.toUpperCase()  <-- not standard
  • record[‘givenName’].toUpperCase()  <-- standard
  • record.givenName.toUpperCase()  <-- not standard

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