Overview

This section provides an overview of the DirXML^® Manual Task Service Driver, including some of the information necessary to successfully configure the driver.

The Manual Task Service Driver is designed to notify one or more users that a data event has occurred and whether action is required from the user. In an employee provisioning scenario, the data event might be the creation of a new User object and the user action might include assigning a room number by entering data into Novell^® eDirectory^TM or by entering data in an application. Other scenarios include notifying an administrator that a new user object has been created, or notifying an administrator that a user has changed data on an object.

Configuring the Manual Task Service Driver usually consists of configuring two separate but related subsystems: the Subscriber channel policies and e-mail templates, and the Publisher channel Web server templates (and possibly policies).

In addition, driver parameters must be configured, such as SMTP server name and Web server port number.

In this section:

• New Features
• Modes of Operation
• How E-Mail Messages and Web Pages Are Created by the Manual Task Service Driver
• Templates
• Replacement Tokens
• Replacement Data
• Template Action Elements
• Subscriber Channel E-Mail
• Publisher Channel Web Server