Creating a Profile Web Service
Profile web services
enable you to specify general settings for your external user repository,
leaving the more detailed settings (like domain specification) to
be set in the associated remote profile sources. This allows you to
create different profile sources to import information each domain
without having to repeatedly specify all the settings.
Before you create a profile web service, you must:
- Install the profile provider on the computer that hosts the portal
or on another computer
- Create a remote server pointing to the computer that hosts the
profile provider (optional, but recommended)
To create a profile web service you must have the following rights
and privileges:
- Access Administration activity right
- Create Web Service Infrastructure activity right
- At least Edit access to the parent folder (the folder that will
store the profile web service)
- At least Select access to the remote server that the profile web
service will use
- Click Administration.
- Open the folder in which you want to store the profile
web service.
- In the Create Object drop-down list,
click Web Service — Profile.
The Profile Web Service Editor opens.
- On the Main Settings page, complete
the following task:
- Click the HTTP Configuration page
and complete the following task:
- Click the Advanced Settings page
and complete the following task:
- Click the Authentication Settings page and complete the following task:
- Click the Debug Settings page and
complete the following task:
- Click the Properties and Names page
and complete the following tasks:
The default security for this profile web service is based
on the security of the parent folder. You can change the security
when you save this profile web service (on the Security tab page in the Save As dialog box), or by editing this profile
web service (on the Security page of the Profile
Web Service Editor).
Portal administrators with at least Select
access to this profile web service can create profile sources based
on the web service.
