What's New in Designer 3.5
Role-based Entitlements
Designer Role-based Entitlements allows you to manage association between the
entitlements and the users. The Entitlements Service Driver implements
entitlements through entitlement policies.
Enable Staging Projects
- Designer facilitates moving Identity Manager projects from one stage to another. You can store additional objects (objects that are not modeled in the Designer) in Designer. These objects are stored in LDIF format under LDIF container in the Identity Vault. By default, there is no LDIF container.
- Designer facilitates deploying the security equivalences from LDIF files and associating them with the drivers.
- Enhanced DriverSet GCV merge makes moving GCVs across stages easier.
Rich Client Platform (RCP)
Designer is now a full fledged RCP application. Being
an RCP application, the overall performance of Designer is significantly
improved while its post install size on disk is reduced. Designer RCP indicates
improved performance in several areas including a dip in installation time, time
taken to launch the workspace, import/export multiple projects,
create/delete/save projects, and in several live operations. Designer RCP offers
an improved and simpler look and feel thus enhancing usability.
Schema Compare
Schema Compare compares the Designer Identity Vault schema with
the live Identity Vault Schema. You can launch the Schema Compare Dialog by
right clicking on 'ID Vault' > Live > Schema > Compare. Once you launch the
dialog, it displays a list of schema attributes and classes that differ between
the Designer and the Identity Vault. In addition, you can also see the classes
and attributes in the schema. When you select an individual class or an
attribute, it shows the compare status as equal or unequal. You can also view
the differences between the individual classes/attributes in the bottom half of
the dialog.
Structured Global Configuration Values
Structured global configuration values allow you to place GCVs
into a group. You do this by creating a template containing the GCVs that you
want in the group, along with their default values. Then, you create instances
of the template with the values you want to change. Support for adding, editing,
and displaying Structured Global Configuration Values is now available in the
Driver and Driver-set GCV Preference pages. Structured GCVs can also be used on
Shim Parameters and Job Parameters pages.
RBPM 3.7 Enhancements
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Roles Driver and Provisioning Driver
RBPM 3.7 requires an updated Provisioning and Roles Service Driver. These new drivers are included in this release.
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Team Editor
You can now create a team in Designer for a particular domain. A new Team Editor is also available. You can now view and edit the recently added attributes in the Team Editor.
Some of the deprecated attributes cannot be found in the new Team Editor. In addition, you can also view permissions for the new team.
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Resource Editor
Designer 3.5 includes the beta version of the Provisioning Resource Editor. Because the feature is not fully developed, it is recommended to create and edit all Resources by using the User Application.
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Workflow Activity in the Provisioning Request Definition Editor
The release includes support for the Resource Binding activity, used in the Resource Approval workflow.
New Configuration Applications
- SAP BizLogic, SAP GRC AC, SAP Portal, and Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) Driver
"With Designer 3.0, I can work in collaboration with other developers, each taking responsibility for one part of the project, and I can keep track of who changed what, when they made the changes, and most importantly, why."
"Designer has literally changed the way we work... The ability to work anywhere has increased our efficiency ten-fold!... The interface is intuitive and the on-line help is a tremendous source of reference... Designer is the obvious development platform for Identity Manager and helps solidify Novell's Identity Manager as a market leader for identity management solutions."