Extending Role Object with additional attributes

Question

All,
I understand that there are 5 attributes available for the Object type as displayed in the 'object' table in the Sun IdM DB repository. As such, i would like to add to the Role object a couple of primitive type attributes. I would appreciate if anyone who has done this or has the knowledge do this would tell me how and where i can go about configuring the role object to have additional attributes besides the 'name' attribute. Thank you.

Answer 1

Wilfred,
we are trying out IDM 8.0 and release notes and administration guide for that version says that you can
extend attributes for Roles in IDM Schema Configuration Object.
But, documentation only specifies how to add a User extended attrbute, we tried adding
an attribute called escalators in the following way:
<IDMObjectClassConfiguration name='Role' extends='Object' displayName='UI_OBJECTCLASS_ROLE' description='Role description'>
<IDMObjectClassAttributeConfiguration name='escalators' queryable='true' summary='true'/>
</IDMObjectClassConfiguration>
we then modified Role Form.xml object and added the following for testing purposes:
<Field name='escalators'>
<Display class='MultiSelect'>
<Property name='title' value='Escalators'/>
<Property name='availableTitle' value='UI_ROLES_XML_AVAILABLE_OWNERS_LABEL'/>
<Property name='selectedTitle' value='UI_ROLES_XML_CURRENT_OWNERS_LABEL'/>
<Property name='allowedValues'>
<List>
<String>roleapprover</String>
<String>approver1</String>
</List>
</Property>
</Display>
</Field>
but the value in the Multiselect just goes to /dev/null....
Can you help us with describing how to add an extended role attribute for IDM 8.0
Thank you in advance