workflow with request form approval form

Hello. I am trying to develop our our custom workflow.

Basically a manager of an employee should fill in a form requesting his access to a resource (AD) The employee is not in IdM i.e. he has no IdM accountId but the manager HAS.

The approver (AD admin) is the only person who knows the key fields (samaccountname CN UPN and DN) to be used when provisioning the employee on IdM and the resource.

My query is that can the approver add these fields to a workflow owned by the manager/originator. All examples I see show approver as just a rubber stamp.

Are there any tricks involved where the approver form has text fields for the AD keys and these should be passed to the provisioning step. All the manager knows is the employee name and his department within the company.

Any hints gratefully accepted.

[840 byte] By [greenfan88a] at [2007-11-27 4:23:05]
# 1

Hi,

i did some thing like this.

Are u using same form for manager and approver?

if yes then do one thing use ExposedVariables in the W/F while calling form and send a variabe like 'actionee' in it by setting it manager.

and at the form disable the field that u dont want to see the manager and at time of approver set 'actionee' to approver and display the field in the form that u want to display the approver and then use for provisioning the user.

Thanx

Shant

Shanta at 2007-7-12 9:30:34 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Directory Servers...
# 2
I hadnt planned on using the same form. I had planned on making them separate forms.I guess that if both manager and approver get same form at end user menu it would be easier to arrange for approver to push in the AD key fields.Thats a good tip. Have to try it./GMN
greenfan88a at 2007-7-12 9:30:34 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Directory Servers...