Originally posted on January 15 2021 at 23:55 UTC
1. What is the purpose of the Primary Account Type?
When user has multiple user accounts in an application, but you want to provision certain critical or birthright access to only one of the primary accounts
2. Where can you set up user account’s Primary Account Type?
Setting up a user account as Primary is 2 step process
User account should have account type populated
You can set up the Primary Account Type in Endpoint show page as below by choosing the account type from the drop down
3. Where can you leverage the power of Primary Account Type?
a. When you request for an enterprise role or firefighter role, and you have 2 user accounts, and you want the role access to be only provisioned to the primary account
b. When you have a Birthright enterprise that you want to provision only to user’s Primary Account
c. When you have a Birthright access that you want to provision only to user’s Primary Account
d. When user’s manager in AD has 2 AD accounts, but you want to add only manager’s primary account to populate as the user’s manager while provisioning
