Unable to set user attribute with $Request.Put method in powershell script

Question

Hello, 
 I'm creating users from an HR database's table and the creation is working fine, now I need to trigger an ARS wokflow that executes a script post-creation: the script is aimed to enrich user's data with information got from a CSV file that is stored on the server. 
 I've created the following Powershell script inside the ARS WF (triggered by Create User event): 
 function onPostCreate($Request) {
	$path = "C:\mypath"
	Set-Location $path
	$fname = $Request.get("givenname")
	$lname = $Request.get("sn")
 $csv = Import-Csv -Path $path\myfile.csv -Delimiter "," -Header 'Name','Surname','DATA1','DATA2','DATA3'
	foreach ($row in $csv){
 if ( ($row.name -eq $fname) -and ($row.surname -eq $lname) ) {
 $data1 = $row.'DATA1'
 $data2 = $row.'DATA2'
 $data3 = $row.'DATA3'
 $Request.put("edsva-data1",$data1)
 $Request.put("edsva-data2",$data2)
 $Request.put("mobile",$data3)
 break
 }
	}
} 
 This script is basically searching the just created user on the CSV file, retrieve the data from the file and write those data into the user's attributes but the command $Request.PUT isn't working. By looking at the script debug log it seems the attributes are set but when I check the values on users, they are empty. 
 I've managed to workaround this issue by using "Set-QADUser" instead of "$Request.Put" but I'd really like to know what I'm missing. 
 Thanks in advance.

Richard.Lambert · Accepted Answer

Reviewing the sample code above, it would be highly unlikely that a single line of code would need to be written within the Sync Service to accomplish straight forward updating of attributes in AD from a flat-file, as long as the name/location of the source file does not change. The connection to the file, the mappings rules (name=fname, surname=lname...) and the flat-file column to AD attribute updating rules are all built-in functions of the Sync Service. 
 With that said, since the workflow/script are working with an onPostCreate function, you might want to try and use $DirObj instead of $Request. Have a look at this sample code from the Active Roles SDK. This from the section labeled "Developing Script Activity Modules". 
 function onPostCreate($Request)
{
 if ($Request.class -eq "user")
 { 
 $ou = [ADSI] $Request.Parent
 [string]$ouManager = $ou.managedBy
 if ($ouManager -ne $null)
 {
 $DirObj.Put("manager", $ouManager)
 $DirObj.SetInfo() 
 }
 }
}

Unable to set user attribute with $Request.Put method in powershell script

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