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How you Generate User Console Account Screens

CA Identity Manager supports metadata-based generation of role and screen definitions for the CA Identity Manager User Console.

You can create the account management screens for a specific dynamic endpoint type in the CA Identity Manager User Console. The account management screens let you manage the accounts, account templates, and endpoints on a specific endpoint type. To create the account management screens, you do the following:

1. Use Connector Xpress to create the presentation metadata that defines the layout of the account management screens in the User Console. You create the presentation metadata by grouping mapped attributes into logical groups and subgroups.

   These attributes appear as tabs and page sections in the account management screens. Connector Xpress saves the groupings you make in the metadata.

   The presentation metadata defines:

   • Where on the User Console account management screen the input control appears
   • The input control's label
2. Use the Role Definition Generator to generate:
   • The field, screen, tab, task, and role definitions from the presentation metadata you created in Connector Xpress.
   • The files required by the Identity Manager Server to provide account management for a specific endpoint type through the User Console.
3. Deploy the Identity Manager Server Configuration Files required by the Identity Manager Server.
4. Import the field, screen, tab, task, and role definitions into CA Identity Manager.

   Importing the field, screen, tab, task, and role definitions makes the account management tasks available in the User Console.