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Root Organization Specification

The root organization serves as the top-level or parent organization in the directory. All organizations relate to the root organization.

In the following illustration, NeteAuto is the root organization. The other organizations are suborganizations of NeteAuto:

A complete root organization definition resembles the following sample:

<ImsManagedObject name="Organization" description="My  Organizations" objecttype="ORG">
   <RootOrg value="select orgid from tblOrganizations where parentorg is null">
      <Result name="%ORG_ID%" />
   </RootOrg>

After you define the basic information for the organization object, including the tables that constitute the organization profile and the organization object’s unique identifier, specify the root organization in the directory.xml file:

• In the value parameter of the RootOrg element, define the query that Identity Manager uses to retrieve the root organization, as in the following example:

  <RootOrg value="select orgid from tblOrganizations where parentorg  is null">
  

• In the name parameter of the Result element, type the unique identifier of the organization, as in the following example:

  <Result name="%ORG_ID%" />
  

  Note: The value of the name parameter should be the unique identifier for the organization object.