Certain components of the One Identity Manager’s graphical user interface are stored in the One Identity Manager schema and can be tailored to suit customer requirements. Menu items in the navigation structure, interface forms, and task definitions can be configured in this way.
Menu items, interface forms, and task definitions are assigned to permissions groups. The user's effective components of the user interface depend on the authentication module used for logging in to the One Identity Manager tools. If a user logs in to a One Identity Manager tool, a system user is found and the available menu items, interface forms, task definitions, and individual program functions are identified depending on the permission groups to which this system user belongs and the adapted user interface is loaded.
Data is displayed as objects in the user interface. User interface objects are meta-objects. You provide a selection of configurable elements that describes how the data stored in the database is perceived. These objects enable data to be distinguished by specific properties. They provide an additional control function for configuring the user interface. Hence, interface forms and tasks are linked to object definitions, which means that different forms and tasks are displayed in the user interface depending on which object is selected.
You can only modify the supplied user interface components to a certain extent and they are overwritten by schema installation. You can integrate components of the default user interface into your own user-defined user interface. If necessary you can disable individual components of the default user interface to stop them from being displayed. The system users provided are not effected by this limitation. Components labeled as disabled remain so after schema installation.
Captions are used in the user interface to create user friendly names for different components of the user interface such as menu items, tasks, and column names. You can maintain multi-language display text in One Identity Manager which enables you to display captions in different languages.
The default One Identity Manager installation is supplied in the English - United States [en-US] and German - Germany [de-DE] language. You can add other languages to the user interface and display text if required. In this instance, you must translate the text before One Identity Manager goes live. There is a Language Editor in the Designer to help you do this. A special control is provided in the One Identity Manager tools that aids multi-language input.
A user interface is always set up for one application. The standard version of One Identity Manager includes the applications and predefined navigation for the Manager, Designer, and Launchpad tools.
Detailed information about this topic
- Object definitions for the user interface
- User interface navigation
- Forms for the user interface
- Statistics in One Identity Manager
- Extending the Launchpad
- Task definitions for the user interface
- Applications for configuring the user interface
- Icons and images for configuring the user interface
- Language-dependent data representation