OIM 11g Approval - Infrastructer details

Folks,
I would be writing and deploying approval workflows in OIM 11g.
Please guide me what all i need to set up before starting the develpoment .
I mean what all softwares i need , any links etc would be helpful .
I have OIM and SOA server installed and up .
Regards
Sid

jdev is required, SoA composite editor
follow below link
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/oim/oim_11g/developing_oim_custom_approval_process_for_self_registration/developing_oim_custom_approval_process_for_self_registration.pdf
--nayan

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OIM 11g Approval Workflow Notification questions

Hello.
I am working with an OIM 11g approval workflow. The workflow will flow from one group to another, and if one user in each group approves it, it is approved. Because I assigned it to groups, the notifications are going to every user in each group.
Is it possible to send a notification to only a single user within a group, instead of everyone? Does auto claim do this?
Is it possible to send a different notification if the ApprovalTask is rejected versus approved?
Thanks.

If I understand correctly, you want to send the notification only to the user who has approved the request and not to all in the group. You can do it by NOT using the notification tab in the .task but by using EmailNotificationService after the .task in BPEL. There you can read the data from payload on who approved the request and can send the notification only to that user. Same way for rejects. You can configure that.
1. After your .task completion you can have a decision box which can check the value for 'outcome' and then direct it to appropriate path for appropriate notification.
or
2. Based on outcome you can set the template in a variable and then in the notificationservice use that variable.
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OIM 11g approval auditing

Is there any way to query the database to show approvals / status for OIM 11g approval workflows? The goal is a report in BI Publisher.
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Sending email notifications in oim 11g approval flow dynamically

Hi,
I have 4 level approval workflow in oim 11g and developed custom composite to get all the approver ids and and assigning these ids into 4 variables.
And used these variables in my custom 4 level sequential workflow. This workflow is working fine. Now I need to update this composite to send email notifications to the approver. So updated code to retrieve email ids and to store them in 4 more vairables. I cannot send all emails at a time thru the code. I need to send email only to the corresponding approver only when the flow reaches to that particular level.
Subject and body will be same but the email address will vary.
Can you please let me know the step by step process to implement notifications to these many levels.
If you think, this is not correct approach (storing all email ids in variables and then sending notifications), please let me know correct approach.
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The way to do it would be to put your human task inside a while loop. This while loop would set a variable to the approver's userid and would continue till all the four approve it. In your human task you need just one approver and that would be the variable which the while loop sets.
If you do it this way, then you can use the OOTB notification tab in the .task and select the 'Assignee' as the email notification receiver and you won't have to worry about getting the email ids as well.
As for the current approach which you have, that is of using the sequential approvers in the human task, I haven't tried it, but just try setting the notification tab in the .task to 'Assignee' and event 'On Assignment'. That should do it as well.
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OIM 11g Approval Workflow Notification Configuration

Dear All,
Is there any documentation guide or tutorial or step by step guide about how to configure approval workflow notification in oim 11g?
In my case, a request must be approve by 3 (three) level of approver, "Requester Manager" --> "Application Business Owner" --> "Application Administrator". On each level, a notification need to be sent to the approver contains all information about the requester and the resource that requested.
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Hi
Please go through the link, You can configure notification any time based on you requirement. You have to get emails to whom you want to sent, just set this mail in a variable. Use this variable as to ,..
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/dev.1111/e10224/bp_notif.htm#BABEDFCC
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OIM 11g Approval Process

Hi Expert/All,
May I have assistance regarding the OIM 11g?
Currently, I already create one approval (only 1 level approval) for some resource in OIM 11g, then I'm continue to test the resource with two below way:
1. If I'm try to add "New Resource" directly by xelsysadm via manage user menu (without approval process), the provisioning process was successfully creating new account in the target system.
2. The wierd is if I'm try to test Self-service request by user, after approval by last level approval, then there is no provisioning activity by OIM system, it is like OIM do nothing. The request status is show "Obtaining Template Approval" and history approval is complete by manager user (only 1 level approval)
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Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the information, but it still do nothing, OIM did not continue the provisioning account to target system event I already assign SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR roles to the user and manager. How I can trace this logs? currently I'm just look at the oim_server1.log at <OIM_DOMAIN>/severs/oim_server1/logs. Is there any other log file can we use to trace the app server logs?
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OIM 11g Approval Workflow - Error

Hi All,
I have created a approval workflow (Operational) in OIM11g. Have deployed it as a soa-composite and registered with OIM. Till here everything went fine.
I have created an apporval policy, to assign to requests of a specific type of resource .
When the resource is requested, the approval workflows is gettign triggered,but the request goes to failed state.
I am getting any exceptions in the logs / on the console.
Has anyone encountered this kind of issue.
Vicky

vicky wrote:
Hi All,
I have created a approval workflow (Operational) in OIM11g. Have deployed it as a soa-composite and registered with OIM. Till here everything went fine.
I have created an apporval policy, to assign to requests of a specific type of resource .
When the resource is requested, the approval workflows is gettign triggered,but the request goes to failed state.
I am getting any exceptions in the logs / on the console.
Has anyone encountered this kind of issue.
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OIM 11g - Approval workflows for disabled user accounts

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We have a scenario wherein a user will be created in OIM with a future start date resulting in a Disabled Untill Start Date user status. Once the user is created, we should let anyone submit a New Hire form for the user and the submitted form needs to be approved by the Manager. Once the Manager approves the form, the target accounts should get created with disabled status. These accounts should get enabled on the start date.
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911709 wrote:
If I create a dummy resource, called "Group Membership" for example, and use this to show the groups that are available in AD, how can I have the request be routed to different approvers? For example, group cn=HR Users,cn=Users,dc=company,dc=com needs to be routed to HR for approval. Group cn=IT,cn=Users,dc=company,dc=com needs to be routed to IT for approval. How can I change the approvers dynamically?
Re: Spawning multiple approval tasks in parallel in OIM11g SOA Composite
You can have dynamic task assignment in BPEL; where you defne a variable in the task assignment and update the variable with the approver group name before triggering the task assignment task. Check BPEL docs for same.
If every group needs a different approver, and there are 5000 groups, can I make 5000 resources and use the built-in routing of approvals? Or, use the dummy resource approach and handle the management of the approvals in some other way.Just make one resource with one field attached to it which takes in the group name and handle approval in SOA by reading a lookup which has AD group to Approval Group mapping.
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Thank you.-Bikash
Edited by: Bikash Bagaria on Feb 18, 2012 1:00 AM

Approval Task Title -OIM 11g R2

Hi,
How can we pull data related to resource being requested, UDFs as part of the Approval task title in SOA composite?
Thanks.

Follow below document to know more about OIM 11g Approval (It's for OIM 11g R1) or you can also follow OIM 11g R2 Developer's Guide:
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/oim/oim_11g/Request_Workflow_for_Self_Registration/request_workflow_for_self_registration.htm

How to get details of Pending Approval request in OIM 11g R2?

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We need to find out following details from Pending Approval Request in OIM 11g R2 -
Request ID,Assignees,Requested Resource Name, Title of Request, Beneficiary, Status of Request.
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Can any one suggeste how can we get these details? Do we need to use other API or other alternative to get all of attributes from Pending Approval Request.
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Thanks Kevin for your suggestion.
In OIM 11g R2 I tried task.getIdentificationKey() to get Request ID and task.getSystemMessageAttributes().getTextAttribute6() to get requested resource name but I am getting null values out of it. Is there something I am missing?
Which common thing I can use to retrieve data from both OIM and SOAINFRA? As I am not getting Request ID from 'IworkflowServiceClient' API so I could not use it to earch request in OIM using 'RequestService'. Even if I have to use query what will be common thing I can use to fetch data from both tablespaces?
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OIM 11g - Email Notification with direct link to Approval Task Details

Hi,
We wanted to send email notifications to approver with direct link to the approval task details screen from which the user can either approve or reject the request. In OIM 11g OOTB Notification templates such as Request Creation contains the direct link to Request Detail screen which is something like
http://localhost:14000/oim/faces/pages/Self.jspx?OP_TYPE=LOOKUP;E_TYPE=MY_REQUEST&T_ID=65
Wondering if there is something similar for Approval Task Details screen as well.
Any kind of help or suggestion is greatly appreciated.
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Deepa

If at all you cannot get the direct link for approve/reject then try the actionable email from SOA. Once you have that configured the emails gets approver/reject links so that approvers can directly approve/reject the task from email. If that works for you then you can look at the format of those links in the email and deduce what you need the url as.
HTH,
BB

Error in creating approval policy in OIM 11g

hi...
i am trying to create approval policy in OIM 11g. But after giving the details for first step, it gives the following error-
"Approval policy validation failed with oracle.iam.request.exception. ApprovalPolicyServiceException:An error occured while searching request model <policy name>"
Please let me know the coz of this error and the way to resolve it.

If you are using JDeveloper , can you able to get class after giving "." .If yes no than it is the problem with the jar file you are using .Check whether you can able to import oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.api.Feature.
Thanks ,
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Approval process creation steps using JDeveloper in OIM 11g R2

Hi,
Please help me to create approval process creation using JDeveloper and how to use the approval process in OIM provision in OIM 11g R2.
Thanks in Advace,
srini

refer developer's guide to get the detailed steps. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27559_01/dev.1112/e27150/request.htm#BABFFJDH
Also refer OBE tutorial http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/oim/oim_11g/Custom_Approval_Process_for_Resource_Request/custom_approval_process_for_resource_provision.htm#t3
There will be slight changes in the steps as this OBE is for 11gR1.
High level steps:
Create a new application using the following command
ant -f <OIM_HOME>/server/workflows/new-workflow/new_project.xml.
It will be created in OIM_HOME/workflows/new-workflow/process-template/ directory
Openthe .jws file in jdeveloper and edit the default human task and add whatever logic is needed.
Then deploy the composite after which you need to create an approval policy and link the SOA composite created
Edited by: Durgaprasad on Apr 24, 2013 1:55 AM

Can approver modify user's request form in OIM 11g?

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In OIM 10g, the approver of a request can modify user's request form, we just need to configure the permission in OIM. But, can we do it in OIM 11g?
If can, how can i configure it?
really need your help guys,, :D
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--herry

Hi user12841694,
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---herry

Using web services in Approval Work flow in OIM 11g

Hi All,
I am a new bie to OIM 11g. I have created an approval work flow and it is working fine.
Now my requirement is to use a web service in the approval work flow instead of directly embeding the java code in Java Embeding Activity. Can some body share me a document or url for the process of doing it.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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If you are using OIM 11gR2 please refer the below document. All steps are very clear with the screenshots.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27559_01/dev.1112/e27150/request.htm#autoId27
See section 21.3.5.7 Configuring the Human Task and BPEL Mappings
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http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/oim/oim_11g/Request_Workflow_for_Self_Registration/request_workflow_for_self_registration.htm

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