I got a lot of questions about this at my TEC session where I demonstrated the work I’ve been doing to configure the FIM Portal as a front-end for BPOS administrative tasks. I don’t think I answered as well as I could have, so I’m going to lay it all out in this post: why [...]
Continuing in my recent theme of communicating information back from a custom workflow (see also Updating RequestStatusDetail and Passing Data via the Request Object), this post shows how you can write information into WorkflowData parameters to then use later in the workflow, perhaps putting it somewhere with the Function Evaluator, or using it in an Email [...]
Not long ago I wrote a post about writing status messages back to the Request object from a custom workflow. I used custom attributes because I was following the only documentation I could find. But Henrik said “why don’t you use RequestStatusDetail?” – and actually the reasons were a. I hadn’t thought of it, and [...]
I have been writing an activity that resets forgotten BPOS passwords (more on that later) and I wanted to include a Notification activity that would inform the user about the password reset request. To make the notification useful I want to include whether the reset succeeded, and if it failed, what the reason was. To [...]
Following on from the last post about adding a CheckBox, here’s how I added a RadioButtonList to a custom workflow UI.
Note: I have also uploaded a version of this to the Technet Wiki: How to Add a RadioButtonList to a FIM Custom Workflow UI
The only examples of custom workflows I’ve seen so far use text boxes for all data entry on the UI. Here’s how I went about adding a check box to my UI.
Note: I have also posted a version of this to the Technet Wiki: How to Add a CheckBox to a FIM Custom Workflow UI
When I first started out with MIIS I found the coding heavy going – but soon realised that the same few extension-writing methods are used for pretty much everything, and the fun bit was just how much I could achieve with them!
Now on to FIM and I have struggled every bit as much with learning [...]
I have been working on a FIM 2010 workflow activity that will run powershell cmdlets and scripts, and I’m now ready to share the code with you lucky people. The activity should work with both local and remote powershell, bearing in mind the various limitiations that seem to occur when running remote powershell commands through [...]
Sometimes, while trying to figure out FIM 2010 custom workflows, it seems to me that everyone else finds this stuff bleedingly obvious – but then I remind myself that actually, I’m not a complete idiot, and if I’m finding it all a bit like wading through chest-high treacle, with submerged barbed wire for added interest, then other [...]
Here’s how I got the Custom Workflow Logging example working in VB.NET. Please consult this post together with the Microsoft document as I’m not going to reproduce the entire thing here. The usual warnings about me being no great developer also apply.
