Activating Attributes configuration for the first time

I’m interested in setting up a configuration option on the Email attribute (I want to force OTP email verification during signup, although the specifics are not super relevant to my question here). This attribute feature is located under Authentication > Database > [my db] > Attributes > Email attribute. I’ve tested this in my DEV instance and it works as expected.

However, something that is tripping me up before enabling in PROD is this scary dialog that I’m forced to click through to “activate” the “Attributes” feature:


The product copy in this dialog & the linked docs page make me think that simply by clicking Proceed to “activate” this feature, I may introduce a breaking change to the pre-existing email attribute (which I can’t even inspect until Attributes has been activated). I’m likely just overthinking this, but would appreciate confirmation that nothing breaking will happen by simply clicking “Proceed”? Obviously I could cause problems by mucking with the attributes after this, but the dialog is making me wonder if I’m somehow not understanding something.

Apologies if this is an inane question, and thanks for the help.

Hi @billylitt

Welcome back to the Auth0 Community!

The Attributes feature for a connection must be first enabled for a new tenant before being able to use Email/Phone/Username and their features. You can go ahead and click on Activate → Proceed since it just enables the feature for the connection and will not make any additional changes to the tenant itself.

If you have any other questions, feel free to let me know!

Kind Regards,
Nik

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