Example: Subscriber Channel E-Mail, Publisher Channel Web Server Response; Example: Subscriber Channel E-Mail, No Publisher Channel Response; How E-Mail Messages And Web Pages Are Created By The Manual Task Service Driver - Novell IDENTITY MANAGER 3.6.1 - MANUAL TASK SERVICE DRIVER Implementation Manual

1.1.1 Example: Subscriber Channel E-Mail, Publisher Channel
Web Server Response
The following is an employee provisioning example scenario in which a new employee's manager
assigns the employee a room number:
1. A new User object is created in eDirectory (for example, by the Identity Manager driver for the
company's HR system).
2. The Manual Task Service driver Subscriber channel sends an SMTP message to the user's
manager and to the manager's assistant. The SMTP message contains a URL that refers to the
Publisher channel Web server. The URL also contains data items identifying the user and
identifying those authorized to submit the requested data.
3. The manager or the manager's assistant clicks the URL in the e-mail message to display an
HTML form in a Web browser. The manager or assistant then does the following:
Selects the DN for his or her eDirectory User object to identify who is responding to the e-
mail message.
Enters his or her eDirectory password.
Enters the room number for the new employee.
Clicks the Submit button.
4. The room number for the new employee is submitted to eDirectory via the Manual Task
Service driver Publisher channel.
1.1.2 Example: Subscriber Channel E-Mail, No Publisher
Channel Response
The following is an example scenario in which a new employee's manager assigns the employee a
computer in an asset management system:
1. A new User object is created in eDirectory by the Identity Manager driver for the company's
HR system.
2. The Manual Task Service driver Subscriber channel sends an SMTP message to the user's
manager and to the manager's assistant. The SMTP message contains instructions for entering
data into the asset management system.
3. The manager or assistant enters data into the asset management system.
4. (Optional) The computer identification data is brought into eDirectory via an Identity Manager
driver for the asset management system.
1.2 How E-Mail Messages and Web Pages Are
Created by the Manual Task Service Driver
E-mail messages, HTML Web pages, and XDS documents can all be considered documents. The
Manual Task Service driver creates documents dynamically, based on information supplied to the
driver.
Templates are XML documents that contain the boilerplate or fixed portions of a document together
with replacement tokens that indicate where the dynamic, or replacement, portions of the
constructed document appear.
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