Update user profile in identity store

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**EDIT: SOLVED**

**With a bit of trial and error I was able to solve it.**

**The attributepath strings I had to use were `name.givenName` , `name.familyName`  and `displayName`**

**For example:**
```
{
    "IdentityStoreId": "d-XXXXXXXXXXX",
    "UserId": "uid",
    "Operations": [
        {
            "AttributePath": "name.givenName",
            "AttributeValue": "MyGivenName"
        }
    ]
}

```

**I wish the documentation was a bit more clear about the alternative when shorthand syntax can't be used.**

Hi,

Similar question to: https://repost.aws/questions/QU6QhgdzQUQ_6yLMXxRz_Pxg/update-user-in-identity-store

We've connected our IAM Identity Center to Okta.

I'm trying to update the given name and family name fields for a user in IAM Identity Center via cli.
Having a bit of trouble understanding what's expected in the attributepath and attributevalue.

After tinkering with the JSON file a bit I got to the below, but receive an error.

```
{
    "IdentityStoreId": "d-XXXXXXXXX",
    "UserId": "uid",
    "Operations": [
        {
            "AttributePath": "name",
            "AttributeValue": [{
                "FamilyName": "VVV",
                "GivenName": "YYY"
            }]
        }
    ]
}
```

Error is: 
```
An error occurred (ValidationException) when calling the UpdateUser operation: name: The attribute name should be type COMPLEX, not a list.
```

The cli command I'm running is 
```
aws identitystore update-user --cli-input-json file://attributes.json  --profile profile-name
```

Any help will be appreiciated

Thanks,
Elior.

rePost-User-1534891 · Answer

On investigating the error received by you, I was able to confirm that the error "An error occurred (ValidationException) when calling the UpdateUser operation: name: The attribute name should be type COMPLEX, not a list." occurs if it is a syntax error. Kindly refer to the following documentation for the same:

[+] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/IdentityStoreAPIReference/API_UpdateUser.html

I checked the json file being passed by you and found that the Attribute value parameter has a syntax error.

The following should be the correct syntax of the json file:

-------------------------------------------
{
    "IdentityStoreId": "d-XXXXXXXXX",
    "UserId": "uid",
    "Operations": [
        {
            "AttributePath": "name",
            "AttributeValue": [
                "FamilyName": "VVV",
                "GivenName": "YYY"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
-------------------------------------------

Kindly use the above json and execute the CLI command.

Update user profile in identity store

{ "IdentityStoreId": "d-XXXXXXXXX", "UserId": "uid", "Operations": [ { "AttributePath": "name", "AttributeValue": [ "FamilyName": "VVV", "GivenName": "YYY" ] } ] }

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