Managing Type Identifiers
A type identifier identifies a business object type supported by a repository type. Object type LDAP entries serve mainly to register the names of supported object types for a particular repository type and to establish roots of subtrees under the repository type that contains entries defining the delegates that can operate on those object types. A type identifier is assigned when a delegate is created.
Every type identifier can be assigned one or more super types. A super type is another object type whose attributes or constraints are inherited by the first type identifier. For example, if you have two type identifiers:
• org.myorg.Person , with attributes of fname (first name) and lname (last name)
• org.myorg.Employee , with attributes of empid (employee ID) and dept (department)
and you specify org.myorg.Person as the super type of org.myorg.Employee , then org.myorg.Employee inherits the fname and lname attributes of org.myorg.Person , without having to specify those attributes explicitly. Similarly, delegates can be inherited through type identifier hierarchies.
From the
Manage Type Identifier page you can
create,
update, and
delete type identifiers.
To display the Manage Type Identifier page, click the corresponding link in the gray navigation bar on the left side of the window.