11. Provisioning Request Definition Editor: What's New

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1. Overview

The provisioning request editor has added support for the future release of the Identity Manager 3.5 workflow engine. These new features are available only if the Identity Vault is version 3.5.

2. General Features (Identity Manager 3.5 Only)

Three new check boxes control new features of the Identity Manager 3.5 workflow engine.
  • Restrict View

    • If checked, only the initiator of the flow can see the status of the flow. If not checked, either the annotator or the recipient can see the status of the flow.
  • Generate Comments

    • If checked, the workflow engine will generate user friendly comments into the flow as the flow progresses.
  • Set Default Completion Status to Approved

    • If checked, the workflow engine will set the status of a workflow to approved, even if no provisioning activities are present. Previous versions of the engine set the status of the workflow to approved only if an entitlement or entity activity was executed.

3. New Approval Status Activity (Identity Manager 3.5 Only)


This new activity type affords the designer control of the final status of the flow, either "approved" or "denied." In previous releases, the flow status was set to "approved" only if an entitlement or entity activity was executed.

4. New Integration Activity (Identity Manager 3.5 Only)


This new activity type allows the designer a way to reach out to external data sources for decision support, or any other purpose. This is accomplished by utilizing the Novell Integration Manager product to call out to SOA Web Services and bring the resulting data back into the workflow.

5. Form Scripting (Identity Manager 3.5 Only)

Custom Javascript are now allowed on the forms to allow the designer to customize behavior of the forms. One has options to import or include script libraries, and to call them from within field events. These events are used to populate data on the forms, allow for cross field validation, and more.

6. Digital Signature Support (Identity Manager 3.5 Only)

A security feature, the designer can now tag forms with digital signature required, where the form cannot be submitted without digitally signing the form. The digital signature can be provided by smart cards or biometric readers.

7. Retry Upgrades (Identity Manager 3.5 Only)

A basic upgrade in approval activity allows the designer to have different intervals for escalation levels, as well as different email notification messages based upon where the workflow is in the escalation process.



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