Views and Forms

Identity Manager forms contain rules for transforming data in views and describe how the view attributes are to be displayed and edited in a browser. The Identity Manager user interface processes the view and form to generate an HTML form. When the user submits the HTML form, Identity Manager merges the submitted values into the view, then asks the view handler to refresh the view. The view can be refreshed several times during an interactive editing session, and different HTML fields can be generated based on logic in the form. When the user is finished interacting, the view is checked in which typically results in the view being passed as input to a workflow process.