(WAL) - Workflow Example - Employee ID Generator

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First published on MSDN on Jan 15, 2016

In this Workflow Example we will demonstrate how to use the MIM WAL to build a Workflow that can be used to generate an Employee ID for a newly created user within the FIM Portal. This Workflow uses the following "WAL" Workflow Activities.

Prerequisites for this Posting

1. read The MIMWAL (Custom Workflow Activity Library)

1. Create a New Resource called Employee, you can use the following post for guidance

1. Schema Management - Creating a New Resource

• Update Resource Activity

• Generate Unique Value Activity

• In the FIM Portal navigate to the Workflows Page

• Click on New

• Enter the name for your Workflow (I start all my workflows with an "_" which makes it easy to identify all non custom workflows.

• Select Action

• Click on Next

• Select WAL: Update Resources

• Click on Select

• Configure the 1st Workflow Activity

• Type in the name for the Activity that will be used as part of the Workflow

• Select Advanced Features

• Select Query Resources

• In the Queries section add the following

• Key

• Employee

• XPath Filter

• /Employee

• For Request Actor select Service Account

• In the Updates Section type the following

• Value Expression

• First([//Queries/Employee])

• Target

• [//WorkflowData/Employee]

• Select Save

• Click on Add Activity

• For the 2nd Activity select WAL: Generate Unique Value

• Click on Select

• Configure 2nd Workflow Activity

• Type in the name for the Activity that will be used as part of the Workflow

• Target for Generated Value type

• [//WorkflowData/EmployeeID]

• Conflict Filter

• /Person[EmployeeID='[//Value]']

• Query LDAP for Conflicts

• "False"

• Uniquness Key Seed

• 1

• Value Expression

• Add(ConvertToNumber([//WorkflowData/Employee/EmployeeID]),ConvertToNumber([//UniquenessKey]))

• Select Save

• Click on Add Activity

• Select WAL: Update Resources

• For the 3rd Activity select WAL: Update Resources

• Click on Select

• Configure 3rd Workflow Activity

• Type in the name for the Activity that will be used as part of the Workflow

• Updates

• Value Expression

• [//WorkflowData/EmployeeID]

• Target

• [//Target/EmployeeID]

• Value Expression

• [//WorkflowData/EmployeeID]

• Target

• [//WorkflowData/Employee/EmployeeID]

• Click on Save

• Click on Finish