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# Profile data management (video)

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**Running time**: 2:23

By default Identity Cloud user profiles don't have a space for users to enter their favorite color or their favorite book or their favorite anything. Would information like that be useful to you? Then you're in luck: in this video, you'll learn how to additional attributes (i.e., additional database fields) to your user profile datastores.

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