Using extended attributes

Question

Hi Folks,
I'm new to sun idm and i need to add some new attributes to user object.
what i have done is updating the idm schema configuration. But what to do next?
I'm really going insane, read hundreds of pages about forms views and workflows but
this does not help for me, argh!
The goal is to be able to enter the values for these new attributes when a user is created.
So i want to adjust anonymous enrollment and user creation by admin...
Can someone point out the steps to go on?
some advice would really be appreciated

Answer 1

not sure where you extended attribute went; maybe iFS created a DOCUMENT2 class for you by default. anyway, in order to do this the right way:
first, you need to properly extend the document class, creating a new content class with your extended attributes. for example, create the class ARIDOCUMENT that extends DOCUMENT and adds the TITLE attribute. (look at the developer docs or the sample code to see how to do this. there's a complete example on creating and modifying subclasses in the CMS installation at: 9ifs\samplecode\oracle\ifs\examples\devdoc\subclassing)
once you do that, in order to create a new document with your custom fields, you need to perform the following steps: create a new document definition, set the standard attributes, apply your custom doctype, and then set the extended attributes. here's a quick snippet:
// create docdef...
DocumentDefinition def = new DocumentDefinition(session);
// set standard attributes...
def.setAttribute(Document.NAME_ATTRIBUTE, AttributeValue.newAttributeValue("File.txt"));
def.setAttribute(Document.DESCRIPTION_ATTRIBUTE, AttributeValue.newAttributeValue("A text file."));
// look up and apply your custom doctype
ClassObject co = session.getClassObjectByName("ARIDOCUMENT");
def.setClassObject(co);
// set extended attributes. note: you can't use the 'Document.' prefix,
// because TITLE is not a DOCUMENT attr!
def.setAttribute("TITLE", AttributeValue.newAttributeValue("My Title"));
// create the aridoc...
Document aridoc = (Document) session.createPublicObject(def);
in a nutshell, that's how you do it...
hope that helps,
.rich