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    Error regarding Gender field when loading users via SIS (information to become obsolete)

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    • Product: Alma

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    Until the August 2025 Release of Alma, Gender information can be uploaded via the Users Integration Profile. From August 2025, Alma does not store this information anymore.

    Per customers' questions, the possible values in the SIS XML are: Male, Female, None, Other.

     

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    Please note this information, quoted from the May 2025 Release Notes: 

    As part of our GDPR compliance efforts and in order to improve the protection of private information on the Alma database, all gender information will be removed from the user records in Alma in the upcoming August release. Since gender is not essential for product functionality, retaining it poses unnecessary compliance risks according to GDPR requirements that personal data be collected and processed only when there is a clear legal basis and business need.

    The deletion will not be reversible. From that point on, it will no longer be possible to input or retrieve gender information to the user record using any of the standard interfaces that concurrently update this record.

    To clarify: 

    The only effect will be that there will be no gender field to be updated, and the field will therefore be ignored if included in the input XML. All other information on the record will continue to be updated by the feed, and the records will not be rejected.

    No change will be required on your SIS or API feeds.

    Additional Information

    More about SIS (Student Information System, Users Integration Profile) is found in the Developers Network. 

    Code and Description values are listed in the XSD page.

     

    • Article last edited: 2-MAY-2025

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