MIM 2016 Portal Troubleshooting: Deleting attribute value - NoFlowSingleton was not expected

아티클
1/17/2024

Situation

You have the requirement to remove the content of an (user) attribute in the MIM Portal.

In the test environment tested below, we needed to remove a string value from a custom User attribute (string).

Issue

When you try to use the default MIM portal functions, you cannot empty the attribute.

Empty string ("") , space (" "), is not removing the string.

And using null, null(), Null, Null() is throwing an error.

Keywords

Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.FunctionLibrary.NoFlowSingleton was not expected.

Error message

System.InvalidOperationException: There was an error generating the XML document. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: The type Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.FunctionLibrary.NoFlowSingleton was not expected. Use the XmlInclude or SoapInclude attribute to specify types that are not known statically. at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializationWriter.WriteTypedPrimitive(String name, String ns, Object o, Boolean xsiType) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterRequestParameter.Write1_Object(String n, String ns, Object o, Boolean isNullable, Boolean needType) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterRequestParameter.Write8_UpdateRequestParameter(String n, String ns, UpdateRequestParameter o, Boolean isNullable, Boolean needType) at Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.XmlSerializationWriterRequestParameter.Write11_RequestParameter(Object o) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Serialize(XmlWriter xmlWriter, Object o, XmlSerializerNamespaces namespaces, String encodingStyle, String id) at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Serialize(XmlWriter xmlWriter, Object o) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.WSResourceManagement.RequestType.AddParameter(RequestParameter parameter) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.WSResourceManagement.RequestType.SetRequestParameters(OperationType operation, UniqueIdentifier targetObject, List`1 requestParameters) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.WSResourceManagement.RequestType..ctor(UniqueIdentifier creator, UniqueIdentifier targetIdentifier, OperationType operation, List`1 requestParameters, CultureInfo locale, Boolean isChildRequest, Guid cause, Boolean maintenanceMode, UniqueId messageIdentifier, UniqueIdentifier requestContextIdentifier) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.CreateRequest(UniqueIdentifier requestor, UniqueIdentifier targetIdentifier, OperationType operation, String businessJustification, List`1 requestParameters, CultureInfo locale, Boolean isChildRequest, Guid cause, Boolean doEvaluation, Nullable`1 serviceId, Nullable`1 servicePartitionId, UniqueId messageIdentifier, UniqueIdentifier requestContextIdentifier, Boolean maintenanceMode) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.RequestDispatcher.CreateRequest(UniqueIdentifier requestor, UniqueIdentifier targetIdentifier, OperationType operation, String businessJustification, List`1 requestParameters, CultureInfo locale, Boolean isChildRequest, Guid cause) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Workflow.Hosting.RequestWorkItemProcessor.CreateRequest(UniqueIdentifier requestor, UniqueIdentifier objectId, OperationType operation, List`1 requestParameters, Guid parentRequest) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Workflow.Hosting.RequestWorkItemProcessor.ProcessPutWorkItem(UpdateRequestWorkItem updateWorkItem) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Workflow.Hosting.RequestWorkItemProcessor.ProcessWorkItem(WorkItem workItem)