Novell IDENTITY MANAGER 3.6.1 - UNDERSTANDING POLICIES 05-06-2009 Manual page 10

The policy is applied separately to each operation. As the policy is applied to each operation in
turn, that operation becomes the current operation. Each rule is applied sequentially to the
current operation. All of the rules are applied to the current operation unless an action is
executed by a prior rule that causes subsequent rules to no longer be applied.
A policy can also get additional context from outside of the document and cause side effects
that are not reflected in the result document.
For detailed information, see the following sections in this guide:
Chapter 2, "Upgrading Identity Manager Policies," on page 11
Chapter 3, "Understanding Types of Policies," on page 17
Chapter 4, "Understanding Policy Components," on page 41
Chapter 5, "Downloading Identity Manager Policies," on page 49
Chapter 6, "Defining Policies by Using XSLT Style Sheets," on page 51
10 Understanding Policies for Identity Manager 3.6