(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)


2. 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