Forms for the User Interface

User interface forms are used to display and edit data in the user interface. The basic information for representing data on the user interface forms is described in form definitions and form templates. The form definition referenced by the interface form needs to be found. The form template given in the form definition is checked for existence in the form archive and to see if it labeled for the correct display purposes.

Detailed information about this topic

• Recommendations for Editing Forms
• Editing Interface Forms
• Forms for Custom Extensions
• Replacing Default Forms with Custom Forms
• Working with Overview Forms

Recommendations for Editing Forms

• You can disable single predefined overview forms or single form elements of an overview form if necessary. This prevents them being displayed in the user interface. They remain disabled even after schema installation.
• The default installation of One Identity Manager already provides a series of form templates and definitions, for example for editing master data as well as many-to-many relations and object relations (Parent/ChildRelation). These can be used for easily creating your own forms.

• If necessary, you can provide your own form templates in a form archive (<MMM>.Forms.vif).

• To display information about a base object, you create an overview form.
  • You can do this using the Overview Form Editor in Designer.
  • Create menu items for object relations you need to display frequently, and use these menu items as reference in the form elements of the overview form.

    TIP: You can have the Overview Form Editor create the menu items for object relations. Select the object relation you want to display and drag and drop it on an element in the element area of the Overview Form Editor. Use the context menu items "Create list element reference" or "Create reference to data element". The menu items will be entered below the menu item InfoSheets.QIM.Links with the labels InfoSheet.List.<table>and InfoSheet.Node.<table>, respectively. The condition for the menu items is defined as variable %<table>WhereClause%. In the form element you assign a condition as WHERE clause to the variable.

• To edit the base object master data, you create at least one interface form of form type "Edit".
• To define mappings, you create additional interface forms of form type "MemberRelation".
• Assign the forms and menu items to the Manager.
• Assign the forms and menu items to the permissions groups for non role-based and role-based login.

Related Topics

• Editing Interface Forms
• Forms for Custom Extensions
• Replacing Default Forms with Custom Forms
• Working with Overview Forms

Working with the Form Editor

Working with the Form Editor

Edit the user interface forms with the Form Editor. The editor is started from the program "Designer" and opens in the document view. Only additional Form Editor functions are described in the following.

Menu Items

The following items are added to the menu bar when the editor starts.

Table 149: Meaning of Toolbar Icons

Icon	Meaning
	Adds a new form.
	Deletes a form.
	Toggles between captions and form names.
	Toggles between list and hierarchical form view.
	Refreshes the display.
	Starts the WHERE clause wizard for defining custom filters. After entering the data, the form is display with respect to the filter condition.
	Resets custom filter.