Bob's Identity Management Blog

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." – Syrus Publilius

In the past it was common to have a requirement that additional details be presented at the top of a web interface form in ActiveRoles – this would often require modification to the underlying XML making the solution difficult to maintain during upgrades. If the requirement is simple enough there is a workaround that may provide relief in this situation. If you would like to provide limited additional information at the top of a form in the ActiveRoles Web Interface you can add this information to the label field of the first entry. This information must be limited as it is subject to the constraints of the form sizing and so you probably won’t be able to make it look exactly like you require, but you may get it close. Some HTML tags may work, but not all are guaranteed to be available. My suggestion is that you keep things simple like using line breaks and list tags.

1. Logon as a DS Admin to the web interface you wish to modify.
2. Click “Click here to customize this form”
3. Locate the top field and click (edit…) at the far left end of the entry name.
4. In the Entry name: field enter the text you want to display at the top of the form. Make sure to add any text to the left of the field name already in that entry so that it will continue to display properly.
5. For example:
   Directions<BR>Contacts may not be used for authentication.You have two choices at this point.<BR><BR><ol><li>If the person will need to authenticate against Active Directory, you should create a user account object on their behalf.</i><li>Continue creating this Contact object.</i></ol><BR> First Name
6. Click Save
7. Click Reload

Navigate to the form in the UI so that you can validate your work.