User Attributes

Custom metadata attached to each user, which governance rules can then read.

A user attribute is a named field you define once for the organization — Department, Region, Cost Centre — and then set per user. On its own it's just metadata. Its value comes from what reads it.

💡 Why This Matters Column masking and row-level security rules can be written against PersivX User Attribute. That means one rule — "users whose Region is not APAC see this column masked" — replaces a rule per person, and stays correct as people join and move.

Creating an Attribute

From User Attributes in the admin console, click Add new user attribute and provide:

Field	Meaning
Attribute Name	Required. The name shown wherever the attribute is used.
Attribute Type	Currently Text Input.
Default Value	Applied to users who have no explicit value set.

The attributes list shows Attribute Name, Type, and Default Value. Click a name to edit it.

Setting Values Per User

Open the Users screen and click the User Attributes cell on a user's row. Every attribute defined for the organization appears there, and you set this user's values in one place.

ℹ️ Attributes Are Organization-Wide Defining an attribute makes it available for every user in the organization at once. Users you never set a value for fall back to the attribute's default value.

Using an Attribute in a Rule

In a governance rule, set the user condition to PersivX User Attribute and pick the attribute. The rule then compares that user's attribute value using is one of or is not one of, or matches it against a column with Equals Column Value.

Attribute-level rules sit in the middle of the governance precedence order — more specific than a group rule, less specific than one naming an individual user. See Column Masking for the full ordering.