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Applying Custom Business Logic
You can customize CA Identity Manager to implement the business logic that your company requires. CA Identity Manager includes the following options for implementing custom business logic:
- Identity Policies—You can use identity policies to define a set of of business changes that occur when a user meets a certain condition or rule. For example, identity policies can automate certain identity management tasks, such as assigning roles, or enforce business rules, such as preventing users from signing and approving checks over $20,000.
Note: For more information about identity policies, see the Administration Guide.
- Logical Attribute Handlers—You can associate these handlers with Identity Manager task screens to control the display and modification of attribute values.
For more information, see the Programming Guide for Java.
- Business Logic Task Handlers—Enable you to perform custom business logic, such as the following, during data validation operations for an Identity Manager task:
- Enforcing custom business rules (for example, an administrator cannot be allowed to manage more than five groups).
- Validating customer-specific task screen fields (for example, the value of an Employee ID field must exist in the master Human Resources database).
Business logic task handlers can be implemented in Java or JavaScript.
Note: For more information, see the Programming Guide for Java.
- Workflow—Allows you to create custom process definitions, which are associated with a CA Identity Manager event.
Note: Before deciding whether to implement business logic in a business logic task handler or a workflow process, see the following sections:
