Once upon a time we used to be able to write Advanced Flow Rules for reference attributes. Admittedly this sometimes led to horribly inefficient code, but it was useful – particluarly when paired with FindMVEntries to lookup and then reference an existing Metaverse object.
With FIM we lost this capability, and Microsoft claim we were never [...]
I just put together a workflow prototype for a project: when the membership of certain Criteria-based groups changes the groups’ Owners should be notified. This gave me an opportunity to use the EmailNotificationActivity inside a custom Workflow for the first time. As usual I found the official documentation to be somewhat … thin.
Here’s something I’ve been promising to post for a while – my BPOS Powershell Activity.
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
The FIM Sync Service allows passwords to be synchronised from a source AD account to the user’s accounts in other systems. The sync is done at the point of password change and relies on the Password Change Notification Service, which you must install on your domain controllers.
Many target systems are supported OOB, but for BPOS you have [...]
This post is going to describe an approach I’ve used a couple of times this year, in situations which looked quite different at the outset, but actually had one particular characteristic in common: the source data contained multiple records relating to individual people, and I needed access to all of them.
One case involves “contract” records [...]
