Delegated Admin GUI customization

Question

The Delegated Admin GUI is not always very convenient in its default settings.
For a couple of short examples that annoy me while I'm installing and migrating to this server:
1) the user list is split by 10's of users per page or all users on one page, and 10 accounts per page is the default;
2) I can search for users by their email addresses (and that's often more convenient than guessing/remembering what form of the name was entered), but I always have to select that option from a dropdown list, and be careful to type in the partial address before (or between) the wildcard asterisks, etc.
Is it possible to provide some customization to the GUI - i.e. pre-selected value for "All users on one page", or perhaps better - an increased amount (100 instead of 10); preselect "Search by email" and enter two asterisks as the search field value to easily search for partial addresses (and process a double-asterisk as a single-asterisk - search for everyone - for reverse compatibility), etc?
I believe these types of customizations should be easy to do, is that somehow supported/configured.
The harder types of customizations i thought of (which may include coding) would be:
1) extend/configure the list of attributes to search for (i.e. email doesn't seem to include aliases), and
2) adding another default option - "Search by all of these attributes"

Answer 1

JimKlimov wrote:
The Delegated Admin GUI is not always very convenient in its default settings. A little bit of background. The Delegated Admin GUI is not designed to be the all encompassing provisioning tool and this is reflected in the lack of UI customisation guides and the limited functionality. The tool caters for the smaller organisation that wants to perform simple account/group/resource creation and deletion and also to big-ISP's that wanted a delegated administration tool for hosted domains.
Medium sized organisations e.g. Universities tend to develop their own provisioning tools (usually for financial reasons).
Larger organisations either have their own provisioning tools or make use of DA's user/account provisioning big brother :
http://www.sun.com/software/products/identity_mgr/index.xml
A customisation guide for common settings/modifications is available here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4438/acfdl?a=view
For a couple of short examples that annoy me while I'm installing and migrating to this server:
1) the user list is split by 10's of users per page or all users on one page, and 10 accounts per page is the default;I was able to increase the limit by changing the maxRows setting in the following file and restarting the webserver instance:
/var/opt/SUNWwbsvr7/https-<hostname>/web-app/<hostname>/da/jsp/users/UserList.jsp
2) I can search for users by their email addresses (and that's often more convenient than guessing/remembering what form of the name was entered), but I always have to select that option from a dropdown list, and be careful to type in the partial address before (or between) the wildcard asterisks, etc.Try using the "advanced search" instead (at the top of the GUI near the log out/help links)
I believe these types of customizations should be easy to do, is that somehow supported/configured.You can make the customizations, the down side is that when you apply a DA patch they will be over-written. From memory they were planning on addressing this limitation at some stage but it appears to have dropped off the developers "radar".
1) extend/configure the list of attributes to search for (i.e. email doesn't seem to include aliases), and It is supposed to : RFE#6296082 - "Need to provide ability to search for email alias in delegated admin" was implemented several years ago but the search as you said doesn't seem to include mailalternateaddress/mailequivalentaddress. You will need to log a support case to get this investigated further.
2) adding another default option - "Search by all of these attributes"Refer to the advanced search.
Regards,
Shane.