diff --git a/manage-gui/src/components/metadata/ARP.jsx b/manage-gui/src/components/metadata/ARP.jsx
index 93f36b41..55962d41 100644
--- a/manage-gui/src/components/metadata/ARP.jsx
+++ b/manage-gui/src/components/metadata/ARP.jsx
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ export default class ARP extends React.Component {
         if (arpConf.multiplicity) {
             this.setState({addInput: true, keyForNewInput: key});
         } else {
-            this.onChange(key, [{value: "*", source: "idp", motivation: "", releaseAs: "", useAsNameId: false}]);
+            this.onChange(key, [{value: "*", source: "idp", motivation: "", release_as: "", use_as_nameid: false}]);
             this.setState({newArpAttributeAddedKey: key});
         }
     };
@@ -110,9 +110,15 @@ export default class ARP extends React.Component {
         } else {
             const currentArpValues = [...this.props.arp.attributes[key] || []];
             const motivation = this.getArpAttribute(currentArpValues, "motivation");
-            const releaseAs = this.getArpAttribute(currentArpValues, "release_as");
-            const useAsNameId = this.getArpAttribute(currentArpValues, "use_as_name_id", true);
-            currentArpValues.push({value: value, source: "idp", motivation: motivation, releaseAs: releaseAs, useAsNameId:useAsNameId});
+            const release_as = this.getArpAttribute(currentArpValues, "release_as");
+            const use_as_nameid = this.getArpAttribute(currentArpValues, "use_as_nameid", true);
+            currentArpValues.push({
+                value: value,
+                source: "idp",
+                motivation: motivation,
+                release_as: release_as,
+                use_as_nameid: use_as_nameid
+            });
             this.setState({addInput: false, keyForNewInput: undefined, value: "", newArpAttributeAddedKey: key});
             this.onChange(key, currentArpValues);
         }
@@ -121,7 +127,7 @@ export default class ARP extends React.Component {
     arpAttributeChange = (key, attribute, boolean = false) => e => {
         const value = boolean ? e.target.checked : e.target.value;
         const {attributes :arpAttributes} = this.props.arp;
-        if (attribute === "use_as_name_id") {
+        if (attribute === "use_as_nameid") {
             const newArpAttributes = {...arpAttributes};
             Object.keys(newArpAttributes).forEach(arpKey => {
                 arpAttributes[arpKey].forEach(arpValue => {
@@ -290,8 +296,8 @@ export default class ARP extends React.Component {
                     colSpan={2}>{I18n.t("arp.new_attribute_use_as_nameid", {key: this.nameOfKey(display, attributeKey)})}</td>
                 <td colSpan={3}>
                     <CheckBox name={attributeKey}
-                              onChange={this.arpAttributeChange(attributeKey, "use_as_name_id", true)}
-                              value={this.getArpAttribute(attributeValues, "use_as_name_id", true)}/>
+                              onChange={this.arpAttributeChange(attributeKey, "use_as_nameid", true)}
+                              value={this.getArpAttribute(attributeValues, "use_as_nameid", true)}/>
                 </td>
             </tr>}
             </tbody>)
diff --git a/manage-server/src/test/java/manage/control/DatabaseControllerTest.java b/manage-server/src/test/java/manage/control/DatabaseControllerTest.java
index 85c386cf..544dd57d 100644
--- a/manage-server/src/test/java/manage/control/DatabaseControllerTest.java
+++ b/manage-server/src/test/java/manage/control/DatabaseControllerTest.java
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 import manage.AbstractIntegrationTest;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import static io.restassured.RestAssured.given;
 import static org.apache.http.HttpStatus.SC_OK;
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@
 public class DatabaseControllerTest extends AbstractIntegrationTest {
 
     @Test
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public void pushPreview() throws Exception {
         Map connections = given()
                 .when()
@@ -30,6 +33,17 @@ public void pushPreview() throws Exception {
                 .get("coin"))
                 .get("imported_from_edugain");
         assertEquals(importFromEdugain, "1");
+
+        //ensure the correct ARP is exported
+        List<Map<String, Object>> arpGivenNames = (List<Map<String, Object>>) ((Map) ((Map) ((Map) connections.get("connections"))
+                .get("11"))
+                .get("arp_attributes"))
+                .get("urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:givenName");
+        Map<String, Object> arpGivenName = arpGivenNames.get(0);
+        List<String> keys = arpGivenName.keySet().stream().sorted().collect(Collectors.toList());
+        assertEquals(List.of("motivation", "release_as", "use_as_nameid", "value"), keys);
+        assertEquals("aliasGivenName", arpGivenName.get("release_as"));
+        assertEquals(true, arpGivenName.get("use_as_nameid"));
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/manage-server/src/test/resources/json/meta_data_seed.json b/manage-server/src/test/resources/json/meta_data_seed.json
index 8e2bd5d0..c23275aa 100644
--- a/manage-server/src/test/resources/json/meta_data_seed.json
+++ b/manage-server/src/test/resources/json/meta_data_seed.json
@@ -558,7 +558,9 @@
             {
               "source": "idp",
               "value": "*",
-              "motivation": "1234"
+              "motivation": "1234",
+              "release_as": "aliasGivenName",
+              "use_as_nameid": true
             }
           ]
         },
diff --git a/manage-server/src/test/resources/push/push.expected_connections.json b/manage-server/src/test/resources/push/push.expected_connections.json
index a02f70f6..93adc742 100644
--- a/manage-server/src/test/resources/push/push.expected_connections.json
+++ b/manage-server/src/test/resources/push/push.expected_connections.json
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
         "urn:mace:dir:attribute-def:givenName": [
           {
             "value": "*",
-            "motivation": "1234"
+            "motivation": "1234",
+            "release_as": "aliasGivenName",
+            "use_as_nameid": true
           }
         ]
       },