How to create custom events in OIM

Question

Hi
We have a requirement to create new notification templates with custom events to send email notifications.
How should I create a custom event, any pointers are highly appreciated.
Thanks
Nagendra

Answer 1

I am still unclear about the relationship between this report and OIM; as stated OIM allows you to create [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27559_01/dev.1112/e27150/notevents.htm#BEIBDIAA]Custom Notification Events however generally the invocation of them is tied to the [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27559_01/dev.1112/e27150/oper.htm#CCHFBGAA]custom event handler which in turn are tied to OIM operations. In this case AFAIK there is no OIM operation rather the HCM application is querying user data combined with data from HCM. Is the requirement to use the OIM notification feature or can you use other alternatives e.g. [url http://fmwdocs.us.oracle.com/doclibs/fmw/E10285_01/dev.1111/e10224/ns_ws_api.htm#SOASE87208]UMS ?
I think you could invoke a custom OIM event using the [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27559_01/dev.1112/e27150/apis.htm]OIM APIs specifically using the [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/apirefs.1111/e17334/oracle/iam/notification/api/NotificationService.html]notification service (for details of related classes refer to the [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E21764_01/apirefs.1111/e17334/toc.htm]javadoc).
However I have not tested this and was unable to find a concrete example from the documentation. Pseudo logic should be something like this:
  Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
  env.put(OIMClient.JAVA_NAMING_FACTORY_INITIAL, "weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
  env.put(OIMClient.JAVA_NAMING_PROVIDER_URL, http://OIM_HOSTNAME:OIM_PORT);
  OIMClient oimClient = new OIMClient(env);
  oimClient.login(OIM_USERNAME, OIM_PASSWORD);
  NotificationEvent event = new NotificationEvent();
  event.setUserIds(new String[]{"receiverUserId"});
  event.setTemplateName("Template Name");
  event.setSender(null);
  NotificationService notificationService = oimClient.getService(NotificationService.class);
  notificationService.notify(event);Do note that this is provided as illustration and if adopted you will need to implement proper exception handling, store credentials in [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E29505_01/core.1111/e10043/devcsf.htm]CSF etc.
Jani Rautiainen
Fusion Applications Developer Relations
https://blogs.oracle.com/fadevrel/