This is optional. Configuring a Remote Service object allows multiple services to share a single remote service configuration. Profile Web Services can use either a Remote Service object or hard-coded URLs.

Each remote authentication service must have an associated Profile Web Service object. The Authentication Web Service editor allows you to specify general settings for the back-end system.

The following settings are necessary for Authentication Services:

• The encoding style must reflect the service implementation (.NET vs Java). The encoding style is set on the Advanced Settings page. For .NET, you must set the encoding to Document/Literal. Java uses the default, RPC/Encoded.
• All configuration pages must be entered on the Advanced URLs page. You can add configuration pages to the Profile Source editor. These URLs must be entered on the Advanced URLs page.

Each Profile Web Service has one or more associated Remote Profile Source objects that define basic settings.

To create new user information properties, you must first create a Property object using the Property editor.

The Global Object Property Map displays the types of portal objects with which you can associate properties. Values for a portal object's associated properties are specified on the Properties and Names page of the object's editor.

To import new user information properties into the portal, you must add mappings to the Global Object Property Map. Each property must be mapped to the User object.

To create a property in the portal, choose Create Object... | Property in portal Administration. After you have created a property, you can add it to the Global Object Property Map.

For more details on the Global Object Property Map, see the portal online help.

When a profile service imports user information into the portal, the attributes imported must be associated with portal properties. To make these properties available to other services, you must associate them with user information using the User Profile Manager.

On the User Information Property Map page of the User Profile Manager, add any properties that should be associated with user information settings. (The properties must already exist in the portal and be associated with the User object in the Global Object Property Map .)

For details on the User Profile Manager, see the portal online help.

To run the authentication service, you must schedule a job or add the Profile Source to an existing job. The Remote Profile Source editor allows you to set a job.