Customizing the labels

You can rename the labels to suit your business needs.

Before you begin

You must have read or write access to the customizable files and their directories. See Location of Identity Service Center customizable files and Customization of Identity Service Center files. Contact your system administrator if you do not have the necessary permissions.

About this task

Use the following sections to work with the configuration files or the configuration properties from the IBM Security Identity Manager virtual appliance console:

• To go to a custom file and edit, download, upload, or search it, see Managing custom files.
• To go to a property file and edit, upload, or search it see Managing the server properties.

AA and AR are the default approval activity result codes used by workflows in IBM Security Identity Manager. The user interface displays labels from the CustomLabels.properties file that are based on the property names. These property names are derived from the approval activity result codes. If you customize workflows to use customized approval activity result codes, you must add the appropriate properties to the CustomLabels.properties file. You customize the labels for the interface when you define these properties. For example, if you use the customized result code XYZ to represent approval, you must add properties with the names XYZ, XYZ_inProgress, and XYZ_complete to CustomLabels.properties file. If you do not add the values to the CustomLabels.properties file, the actual key names are displayed in the user interface. For example, XYZ_inProgress is displayed instead of "Processing".

Procedure

1. Optional: Rename any of the following labels in the CustomLabels.properties file by changing the property value to the text that you want to display:

   Label	Property value
   Approve	AA
   Reject	AR
   Approving	AA_inProgress
   Rejecting	AR_inProgress

   1. Edit the CustomLabels.properties file. See Managing the server properties.
   2. Change the value of the property to the text that you want to display for the label.
2. Optional: Rename the either Approved or Rejected labels or both.
   1. Edit the ActivityListCard_en.properties file. See Managing the server properties.
   2. Change the value of the property AA_Complete or AR_Complete to the text that you want to display for the label.

Results

The labels change to reflect the customization that you made in the CustomLabel.properties and ActivityListCard_en.properties files.

Parent topic: Manage Activities wizard