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Preface
This Sun Identity Manager Workflows, Forms, and Views publication provides an overview of the reference and procedural information you will use to customize Sun Identity Manager for your environment.
Who Should Use This BookSun Identity Manager Workflows, Forms, and Views was designed for deployers and administrators who will create and update workflows, views, rules, system configurations and other configuration files necessary to customize Identity Manager for a customer installation during different phases of product deployment.
Deployers should have a background in programming and should be comfortable with XML, Java, Emacs and/or IDEs such as Eclipse or NetBeans.
How This Book Is OrganizedIdentity Manager Workflows, Forms, and Views is organized into these chapters:
- Chapter 1, “Identity Manager Workflow” — Describes the Sun Identity Manager (Identity Manager) workflow.
- Chapter 2, “Identity Manager Forms” — Describes how to customize the appearance and behavior of selected pages in Identity Manager Administrator and User Interfaces by customizing the forms that define these pages.
- Chapter 3, “XPRESS Language” — Introduces the basic features of XPRESS, an XML-based expression and scripting language used throughout Identity Manager.
- Chapter 4, “XML Object Language” — Introduces the basic features of the XML Object language, which is a collection of XML elements that you can use to represent common Java objects such as strings, lists, and maps.
- Chapter 5, “Identity Manager Views” — Introduces Identity Manager views, which are data structures used in Identity Manager.
- Chapter 6, “HTML Display Components” — Describes the Identity Manager HTML display component library. HTML display components are used when customizing forms.
- Appendix A, “Form and Process Mappings” — Lists the forms and workflow processes used in Identity Manager and their corresponding system names.
Conventions Used in This BookThe tables in this section describe the conventions used in this book.
Typographic Conventions
The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this book.
Symbols
The following table describes the symbol conventions used in this book.
Shell Prompts
The following table describes the shell prompts used in this book.
Related Documentation and HelpSun Microsystems provides additional documentation and information to help you install, use, and configure Identity Manager:
- Identity Manager Installation: Step-by-step instructions and reference information to help you install and configure Identity Manager and associated software.
- Identity Manager Upgrade: Step-by-step instructions and reference information to help you upgrade and configure Identity Manager and associated software.
- Identity Manager Administration: Procedures, tutorials, and examples that describe how to use Identity Manager to provide secure user access to your enterprise information systems and manage user compliance.
- Identity Manager Deployment Tools: Reference and procedural information that describes how to use different Identity Manager deployment tool. This information addresses rules and rules libraries, common tasks and processes, and the SOAP-based web service interface provided by the Identity Manager server.
- Identity Manager Technical Deployment Overview: Conceptual overview of the Identity Manager product (including object architectures) with an introduction to basic product components.
- Identity Manager Resources Reference: Reference and procedural information that describes how to load and synchronize account information from a resource into Sun Identity Manager.
- Identity Manager Tuning, Troubleshooting, and Error Messages: Reference and procedural information that provides guidance for tuning Sun Identity Manager, provide instructions for tracing and troubleshooting problems, and describe the error messages and exceptions you might encounter as you work with the product.
- Identity Manager Service Provider Edition Deployment: Reference and procedural information that describes how to plan and implement Sun Java System Identity Manager Service Provider Edition.
- Identity Manager Help: Online guidance and information that offer complete procedural, reference, and terminology information about Identity Manager. You can access help by clicking the Help link from the Identity Manager menu bar. Guidance (field-specific information) is available on key fields.
Accessing Sun Resources OnlineFor product downloads, professional services, patches and support, and additional developer information, go to the following:
- Download Center
http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/- Professional Services
http://www.sun.com/service/sunps/sunone/index.html- Sun Enterprise Services, Solaris Patches, and Support
http://sunsolve.sun.com/- Developer Information
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/index.html
Contacting Sun Technical SupportIf you have technical questions about this product that are not answered in the product documentation, contact customer support using one of the following mechanisms:
- The online support Web site at http://www.sun.com/service/online/us
- The telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract
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