One of the things that has changed in the Release Candidate is that you no longer have to edit the Microsoft.IdentityManagement.Activities.arp file; in fact it is gone entirely. As of RC0 this file is replaced with the ActivityInformationConfiguration object and it performs the exact same role as before. So, after building your workflow, registering it in the GAC, and restarting the Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager Service, you will need to create one of these objects and then define your WF activity parameters. All of that will be covered in more detail in the next release of our workflow walkthrough document. For now, I wanted to concentrate on facilitating the object creation since RC0 didn’t ship with any OVC definitions to Create, Edit or View the new object type. I’ve created the definitions for you and you can download the OVC XML here:
- Create ActivityInformationConfiguration
- Edit ActivityInformationConfiguration
- View ActivityInformationConfiguration
Now you will need to create three new OVC definitions using the following figure as a template:
- Go to Administration, Object Visualization Configuration, and click on New
- Set the Display Names to:
- Configuration for Creating Activity Information Configuration
- Configuration for Editing Activity Information Configuration
- Configuration for Viewing Activity Information Configuration
- Set Target Object Type to ActivityInformationConfiguration
- For Configuration Data, click Browse and select the appropriate XML file you downloaded earlier
- Check the box that corresponds to the OVC you are configuration (Create, Edit or View)
In the end you’ll have three new OVC configurations; for example, the Edit one should look like so:
Once you are all done creating these objects, execute an IISRESET on the portal to refresh the configuration. Now you’re ready to add your custom WF activities to the portal:
- Go to Administration, All Resources, and click on Activity Information Configuration
- Click New, you should see the Create OVC:
You can also edit or view an existing entry:
That’s it, enjoy!
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