Novell POLICY IN DESIGNER 3.5 - 09-18-2009 Manual page 349

If Cannot Construct Name
Select the action to take if a unique name cannot be constructed. The options are:
Ignore, return empty
Generate warning, return empty name
Generate error, abort current transaction
Generate fatal error, shut down driver
Remarks
Each element provides a pattern to be used to create a proposed name.
<arg-string>
A proposed name is tested by performing a query for that value in the name attribute against the
destination data store by using the
base of the query and scope as the scope of the query. If the destination data store is the Identity
Vault and name is omitted, then a search is performed against the pseudo-attribute "[Entry].rdn",
which represents the RDN of an object without respect to what the naming attribute might be. If the
destination data store is the application, then name is required.
A pattern can be tested with or without a counter as indicated by counter-use and counter-pattern.
When a pattern is tested with a counter, the pattern is tested repeatedly with an appended counter
until a name is found that does not return any instances or the counter is exhausted. The counter
starting value is specified by counter-start and the counter maximum value is specified in terms of
the maximum number of digits as specified by counter-digits. If the number of digits is less than
those specified, then the counter is right-padded with zeros unless the counter-pad attribute is set to
False. The counter is considered exhausted when the counter can no longer be represented by the
specified number of digits.
As soon as a proposed name is determined to be unique, the testing of names is stopped and the
unique name is returned.
The order of proposed names is tested as follows:
Each pattern is tested in the order specified. If counter-use="always" and the pattern is one of
the patterns indicated by the counter-pattern, then the pattern is tested with a counter;
otherwise, it is tested without a counter.
If no unique name has been found after the patterns have been exhausted and counter-
use="fallback", then the patterns indicated by the counter-pattern are retried with a counter.
If all specified combinations of patterns and counters are exhausted, then the action specified by the
on-unavailable is taken.
Example
The following is an example of the Editor pane when constructing the unique name argument:
element or the
<arg-dn>
element as the
<arg-association>
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