Regarding OIM process tasks

Question

Hi Guys,
I am pretty new to OIM. I have installed AD connector and i am able to provision the user to AD. I have observed that Create AD User process definition has almost 25 process tasks. When i observed the tasks that are called after provisioning of user to AD i found that only four tasks are getting called. What about the rest of the tasks when they are called. Is there any way that we can know when these tasks will be called under what situation.
What i want to know is there are mapping which specifies for which action which task to be called. Like for example if change password action is triggered Change Password process task is triggered. So which means there should be some where this mapping may stored which i want to know.
Like i create a new process task and i want to call it when particular action is triggered.
Any body help me in understanding this please.......

Answer 1

Hi,
Process tasks work the same in all processes, regardless of the adapter. This was designed on purpose so that a level of abstraction can be made between the technical details of connecting/acting on a target and the business process.
So, in a nutshell, there are different kinds of tasks:
1) Non-conditional -- these are tasks that run at the start of any process. To define order on these tasks, you must use the Task Dependency tab
2) Disable/Enable tasks -- these are tasks whose Task Effect is either disable or enable. These tasks run whenever the OIM user is disabled or enabled, or when it is done manually. Same thing about order.
3) Undo Tasks -- these are tasks that run when a particular task is undone. They typically run on a revoke, which runs all the undo tasks on the non-conditional tasks
4) OIM/ACT/etc Triggers -- these are typically in the form "Change <attribute>" but they can be anything and are defined in the trigger lookups. They run whenever an attribute on the OIM user changes and that task exists in the process definition
5) Form triggers -- they are in the form: "<Attribute name> Updated" This is hard coded and the attribute name must be the form description name (like "First Name", not UD_ADUSER_FIRSTNAME). These run whenever the process form gets updated for a particular field. They do not run on reconciliations
6) Reconciliation tasks -- these tasks are run whenever a reconciliation event is processed and are defined in the Task Generated tab on the task definition.
7) Attestation -- just like Reconciliation
To see these visually, I suggest hitting the Render Workflow button... OIM separates each of these out for you in the tabs in that screen.
Cheers,
Deborah