6.2 Managing Your Profile in the User Application

The User Application provides addition abilities for managing your identity profile:

  • Send your details (in the form of a link) to someone by e-mail

  • Specify a locale (language) for the instance of the User Application that you use.

This section tells you how to use the My Profile page on the Identity Self-Service tab of the Identity Manager User Application.

NOTE:This section describes the default features of the My Profile page. You might encounter some differences because of your job role, your level of authority, and customizations made for your organization; consult your system administrator for details.

6.2.1 Editing Your Information

My Profile provides an editing page that you can switch to when you want to make changes.

Some values might not be editable. Uneditable values appear on the editing page as read-only text or as links. If you have questions about what you’re authorized to edit, consult your system administrator.

To edit your information:

  1. Click the Edit Your Information link at the top of the My Profile page.

  2. When the editing page displays, make your changes as needed.

  3. When you’re done editing, click Save Changes, then click Return.

Hiding Information

Hiding a piece of your information hides it from everyone using the Identity Manager User Application, except you and the system administrator.

  1. Click the Edit Your Information link at the top of the My Profile page.

  2. On the editing page, find an item that you want to hide.

  3. Click Hide next to that item.

Hide might be disabled for some items. The system administrator can enable this feature for specific items.

Editing an Image

Editing your information might involve adding, replacing, or displaying an image:

  1. On the editing page, click Display to display an image.

  2. Click the plus sign icon to add an image.

    If an image already exists, you can click the pencil icon to replace or remove it.

  3. Click that button to display the File Upload page.

    If this item already has an image, that image displays here.

  4. To add an image or to replace the current one:

    1. Click Browse and select an appropriate image file (such as a GIF or JPG).

    2. Click Save Changes to upload the selected image file to the server.

  5. Click Close Window to return to the editing page.

6.2.2 E-Mailing Your Information

The My Profile page enables e-mailing details as links:

  1. Click the Send Identity Info link toward the top of the My Profile page.

    A new message is created in your default e-mail client. The following parts of the message are already filled in for you:

    This part of the message

    Contains

    Subject

    The text:

    Identity Information for your-user-id

    Body

    A greeting, message, link, and your name.

    The link (URL) is to the Profile page that displays detailed information about you.

    This link prompts the recipient to log in to the Identity Manager User Application before it displays any information. The recipient must have appropriate authority to view or edit the data.

  2. Specify the recipients of the message (and any additional content that you want).

  3. Send the message.

6.2.3 Linking to Other Users or Groups

The Detail page of your profile can include links to other users or groups. You can display the details (Profile page) for any other user or group that is listed as a link in your details.

To display detailed information about another user or group:

  1. While viewing or editing information on the My Profile page, look for links that refer to the names of users or groups. Move your mouse cursor over text to reveal the underline that indicates a link.

  2. Click a link to display the details for that user or group (in a separate window).

  3. When you’re done with that detail window, you can close it.

Here’s a scenario that shows how someone might link to other user and group details. Timothy Swan (Vice President of Marketing) logs in to the Identity Manager User Application and goes to the My Profile page and clicks Edit Your Information.

He notices user names (Terry Mellon) and group names (Executive Management, Marketing, Improve Customer Service task force) that appear as links. He clicks Marketing and sees a new window that displays detailed information about the Marketing group.

If he has permission, he can click Edit Group and use the Edit Group page to add or remove members from the group, change the group description, or even delete the group.

The names of the Marketing group’s members are also links. He clicks Allison Blake and sees detailed information about user Allison Blake (one of his employees).

He can click Edit: User, and, if the system administrator has given him the ability to do so, edit this user’s details (except the Department and Region attributes) or delete this user.

Allison’s e-mail address is a link. When he clicks it, his e-mail client creates a new message to her.

He can now type the message contents and send it.

6.2.4 Choosing a Preferred Language

You can select the locale (language) that you prefer to use in the Identity Manager User Application. You can set the preferred locale at any time in My Profile.

  1. Click Identity Self-Service > Information Management > My Profile > Edit Preferred Locale. The Edit Preferred Locale page opens.

  2. Add a locale by opening the Available Locales drop-down list, selecting a locale, and clicking Add.

  3. Change the order of preference by selecting a locale from the Locales in order of preference list and choosing Move Up, Move Down, or Remove.

  4. Click Save Changes.

The Identity Manager User Application pages are displayed in one or more preferred languages (locales) according to these rules:

  1. The User Application uses locales defined in the User Application, according to the order in the preferred-locale list.

  2. If no preferred locale is defined for the User Application, the User Application uses the preferred browser languages in the order listed.

  3. If no preferred locale is defined for the User Application or the browser, the User Application default is used.

Defining a Preferred Language in the Browser

In Firefox*, add languages through Tools > General > Languages > Languages. Place your preferred language at the top of the list. In Internet Explorer, set language through View > Encoding.