16.3.2.1 Searching for Roles

To search for Role you can perform one of the following:

16.3.2.1.1 Basic Search

To perform basic search:

  1. Log in to Identity Self Service.

  2. Click the Manage tab, and then click the Roles box. The Roles page is displayed.

  3. Select any one of the following search criteria from the Search list:

    • Display Name

    • Name

    • Role Namespace (This option is available when Oracle Identity Manager uses DB identity store)

    • Role Type (This option is available when Oracle Identity Manager uses LDAP identity store)

  4. In the Search field, enter a search criteria. You can optionally use the asterisk (*) wild card character in the search criteria for basic search. The asterisk (*) character is used as a wildcard character. For example, you can specify the value of the Display Name attribute to be Jo* as the search criteria, and select Equals as the search operator. The roles with Display Name that begins with Jo are displayed.

  5. Click the search icon. The roles that match the selected search criteria are listed.

16.3.2.1.2 Advanced Search

To perform advanced search:

  1. Log in to Identity Self Service.

  2. Click the Manage tab, and then click the Roles box. The Roles page is displayed.

  3. Click the Advanced link. Advance Roles search page is displayed.

  4. Select any one of the Match options:

    • All: On selecting this option, the search is performed with the AND condition. The roles are displayed in search result for which all the search criteria specified have matched.

    • Any: On selecting this option, the search is performed with the OR condition. The roles are displayed in search result for which any one of the search criteria specified has matched.

  5. In the searchable role attribute fields, such as Display Name, specify a value.

    For some attributes, select the attribute value from the lookup. For example, to search all roles in the Default role category, select Default in the Role Category field.

  6. For each attribute value that you specify, select a search operator from the list. The following search operators are available for text type of attributes:

    • Starts with

    • Ends with

    • Equals

    • Does not equal

    • Contains

    • Does not contain

  7. To add a searchable role attribute to the Search Roles page, click Add Fields, and select the attribute from the list of attributes.

    For example, if you want to search all roles whose description contains custom admin role , then select Role Description from Add Fields, and specify a search condition as Contains and value as custom admin role.


    Note:

    You can configure the attributes that are searchable. All default and custom-defined searchable role attributes are shown in Add Fields. The searchable attribute are the ones marked with the Searchable = Yes property.

  8. Optionally click Reset to reset the values that you specified as search conditions. Typically, you perform this step to remove the specified search conditions and specify a new search condition.

  9. If you want to save the search criteria for future use, then click Save. See "Using Saved Search" for information about creating and managing saved search.

  10. Click Search. The search results is displayed in a tabular format.

  11. If you want to hide columns in the search results table, then perform the following steps:

    1. Click View on the toolbar, select Columns, Manage Columns. The Manage Columns dialog box is displayed.

    2. From the Visible Columns list, select the columns that you want to hide.

    3. Click the left arrow icon to add the columns in the Hidden Columns list.

    4. Click OK. The selected columns are not displayed in the search results.