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title: Configuring attribute scopes
description: With OpenID Connect, scopes affect the list of attributes that PingFederate can return to the OAuth clients. In the Attribute Scopes tab, you can optionally add associations between scopes and attributes beyond what is defined in the specification.
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# Configuring attribute scopes

With OpenID Connect, scopes affect the list of attributes that PingFederate can return to the OAuth clients. In the **Attribute Scopes** tab, you can optionally add associations between scopes and attributes beyond what is defined in the specification.

## Steps

1. Go to **Applications > OAuth > OpenID Connect Policy Management** and select your policy, or click **Add Policy**.

2. In the **Attribute Scopes** tab, add any number of scope-to-attributes associations.

   1. Select a scope from the **Scope** list.

      Common and exclusive scopes are both available.

   2. Select the relevant checkboxes under **Attributes**.

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      |   | If you have selected a standard scope, its associated standard attributes are automatically selected and cannot be modified. You can select additional attributes to be associated with the selected scope.If you have selected the `profile` scope, any non-standard attributes that are not associated with the `profile` scope become inaccessible to your OAuth clients. The administrative console displays a warning message with a list of inaccessible attributes. Select the relevant checkboxes to make the non-standard attributes accessible, or ignore the message to leave them inaccessible for now. |

   3. Click **Add**.

   4. (Optional) Repeat these steps to define additional scope-to-attributes associations.

   Click **Edit**, **Update**, or **Cancel** to make or undo a change to an existing entry. Click **Delete** or **Undelete** to remove an existing entry or cancel the removal request.

3. Click **Next**.

## Related links

* [Requesting Claims using Scope Values, from the OpenID Connect specification](https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html)

* [Defining scopes](pf_defining_scopes.html)