Viewing the Resources in a Container

An LDAP container contains a list of resources from a specific LDAP server.

For information about creating an LDAP container, see LDAP Containers.

Procedure

  1. From the top menu bar in the Organization Browser, click LDAP Container.
    If any LDAP containers have been created, they are shown in the Container Name list.
  2. Select the desired container from the Container Name list.
  3. Click the View Resources link.

    The list of resources in the selected container is shown in the left pane:

    The icon to the left of the resource name indicates the following:

    Icon Meaning

    This is a BPM resource that has been "created", either directly (with the Create function) or as a result of being mapped to a group or position.

    See Creating BPM Resources and Mapping Resources.
    The resource is a "candidate resource". The resource is available to be made a BPM resource; see above.
    (Only displayed if "Error Marked Only" is selected above the resource list.) There is an error condition associated with this resource (see below).
    The Organization Browser could not make a one-to-one match using the attributes chosen for comparison between the primary and secondary LDAP sources. This indicates that there are "multiple entries" that satisfy the attribute value comparison. For more information, see Primary and Secondary Sources.
    Note: If there are multiple LDAP containers that use the same LDAP source, the same resource may appear in multiple LDAP containers as a candidate resource. However, once a resource is made a BPM resource, the same resource cannot be created from another LDAP container using the same "Resource Name".
    Note: If you select an LDAP container that uses an LDAP server that is currently offline, a message is displayed informing you that the resource list cannot currently be viewed.
  4. Optional: Choose which resources you want to display in the list by clicking the above the resource list.

    The selections are:

    • All - Displays both candidate resources and BPM resources.
    • BPM Only - Displays only BPM resources.
    • Non-BPM Only - Displays only candidate resources.
    • Error Marked Only - Displays resources that have some sort of error condition. One error condition is for a "missing resource" -- see Missing Resource.
  5. Optionally use the Page Size field to specify the number of resources to display in the list, or click the button to page through the pages of resources.
    Note: The LDAP server may impose its own page-size limit. If the LDAP server has a page-size specified (which is commonly 1000), it takes precedence over the value specified in the Page Size field.

Returning to the Resource List

Note that once you display a resource list, you can navigate to other areas of the Organization Browser (for example, to view groups or organizations), then easily return to the previously displayed resource list by clicking the Resources button in the top-level header bar of the Organization Browser.