Specifying attributes that can be edited 

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Specify which attributes in the Profiles user interface can be edited. Attributes that can be edited display on the Edit My Profile page.

Before you begin

To edit configuration files, you must use the wsadmin client. See Starting the wsadmin client for information about how to start the wsadmin command-line tool.

Procedure

Follow these steps for modifying attributes that can be edited for a Profiles form.

1. Start the wsadmin client from the following directory of the system on which you installed the Deployment Manager:
   
app_server_root\profiles\<dm_profile_root>\bin

where <app_server_root> is the WebSphere® Application Server installation directory and <dm_profile_root> is the Deployment Manager profile directory, typically dmgr01.

You must start the client from this directory or subsequent commands that you enter do not execute correctly.

2. Start the Profiles Jython script interpreter.
1. Enter the following command to access the Profiles configuration files:
   
execfile("profilesAdmin.py") If prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path, you must pick the node where the file is stored.

2. Enter the following command to check out the Profiles configuration files:
   
ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("<working_directory>", "<cell_name>")where:
• <working_directory> is the temporary working directory to which the configuration XML and XSD files are copied and are stored while you make changes to them. Use forward slashes (/) to separate directories in the file path, even if you are using the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Note: AIX and Linux only: The directory must grant write permissions or the command does not complete successfully.

• <cell_name> is the name of the WebSphere Application Server cell hosting the Profiles application. This argument is required. It is also case-sensitive, so type it with care. If you do not know the cell name, you can determine it by typing the following command in the wsadmin command processor: print AdminControl.getCell()
  
For example:
• AIX or Linux:

ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")



• Microsoft Windows:

ProfilesConfigService.checkOutConfig("c:/prof/temp","foo01Cell01")



3. Open the profiles-config.xml file in a text editor.
4. Identify those attributes that can be edited by a profile owner based on the data that you can copy from your corporate directory into the Profiles application database, and the requirements for your organization. You specify a particular field as editable by enclosing it in an XML element named editableAttribute as follows:
   

<editableAttribute showLabel="true" hideIfEmpty="true" hcard="true" email="secretaryEmail" uid="secretaryUid" 

appendHtml="&lt;br/&gt;">secretaryName</editableAttribute>



5. The order in which you specify profile attributes that can be edited dictates the order of the form controls for each profile attribute on the Edit My Profile page. You have some control over the form control shown for a particular attribute and how values provided are stored in the Profiles application database.
   
Table 1. Input types for attributes that can be edited

Input type	Description	Example
Multi-line input	Displays an HTML text area form control.	<editableAttribute multiline="true"> description </editableAttribute>
Rich multi-line input	Displays an HTML rich-text editor form control.	<editableAttribute richtext="true"> description </editableAttribute>
Editing disabled	Makes the field read-only.	<editableAttribute disabled="true"> displayName </editableAttribute>



6. After making changes, you must check the configuration files back in, and you must do so during the same wsadmin session in which you checked them out for the changes to take effect. See Applying property changes in Profiles for information about how to save and apply your changes.
   

Parent topic: Customizing the Profiles user interface

Related tasks
Applying property changes in Profiles