Identity Manager 8.0 - Configuration Guide

Form Templates

All form templates are found in the category User Interface | Forms | Form templates in the Designer. It is not usually necessary to define your own form templates.

To display a form template for a user interface form

1. Select User Interface | Forms | User interface forms in the Designer.
2. Select the user interface form in the Form Editor.
3. Select the tab Form template in the Properties view.

Related Topics

• Editing Interface Forms
• Form Definitions

Form Definitions

Form definitions are found in the category User Interface | Forms | Form definitions in the Designer. It is not normally necessary to define your own form definitions.

To display a form template for a user interface form

1. Select User Interface | Forms | User interface forms in the Designer.
2. Select the user interface form in the Form Editor.
3. Select the tab Form definition in the Properties view.

Table 155: Form Definition Properties

Property	Meaning
Form definition name	Name of the form definition. This name is used for displaying the form definition in the Designer.
Form template	Name of the form template to load from the form archive. A form template can be used by several form definitions, such as the form templates for displaying membership trees or the form template for displaying reports. Use the button next to the input field to integrate a new form template in the form definition.
Base form for form sequence	By entering a form definition as a base for a sequence of forms, you can create a group of form definitions for one object definition. All form sequence form definitions contain the same base form. The definition of the interface form can only be made for this base form. When the interface form is loaded in the display, the referenced form definitions for all other form definitions in the form sequence are also loaded. You can navigate arbitrarily within the form sequence without leaving the scope of the interface form.
Description	Detailed description of the form.
Configuration	The configuration data is used to describe the form properties. The form property’s definition is written in XML notation.
Required tables	A form definition can be assigned additional tables that are used to display data. NOTE: If one of the given tables is disabled by a preprocessor condition then the form definition is also considered to be disabled and the corresponding interface form is not shown in the user interface.

Related Topics

• Editing Interface Forms
• Form Templates
• Configuration Data for Displaying Many-to-Many and Object Relations on Forms

Effects of Object Definitions when Displaying Interface Forms

Interface forms that need to be valid for all entries in a database table are allocated a general object definition. Other limited object definitions can have more interface forms. If an entry is selected in the user interface, the currently valid object definitions are used to gather all the interface forms and display them in the user interface in their sort order in the task view and in the context menu.

Example

The following object definitions with interface forms are set up for the table Person.

The following interface forms are displayed for a "Person" object that fulfills the "Person_with_ADUserAccount" definition:

A "Person" object that satisfies the object definition "Person_with_LDAPUserAccount" is given the interface forms:

Related Topics

• Object definitions for the User Interface

Features of the Assignment Form

Forms of type "MemberRelation" are implemented to display data in an assignment list (many-to-many relations). Enter the hierarchy path in the table definition to display the table hierarchically. Enter the foreign key column that the hierarchy should be based on.

Example

An Active Directory user account (table ADSAccount) is typically displayed on an assignment form below its Active Directory container (UID_ADSContainer). The Active Directory container (table ADSContainer) is, on the other hand, displayed underneath its Active Directory domain (column UID_ADSDomain). The path for the hierarchy structure is entered as follows:

Related Topics

• Table Properties