How to generate a custom central account

Question

Hi all. 
 I must generate a central account depending on the department. 
 But it seems that central account is calculated as soon as the last name and first name are informed on the web portal, way before any other field could be informed. When I arrive at department drop down to select a department, changing the department does not recalculate the central account and thus, central account remains "incorrect" for our needs. 
 What I'm looking for is a way to calculate the central account AFTER i've selected the department. This way I have all the needed information to calculate the central account. 
 Enabling the "overwrite" checkbox on the account central template is not an option right now, because central account do not has to be modifiable. 
 How can I do it? 
 
 Thanks.

Craig.Bolte · Answer

You customize the building of the central account in Designer. In the One Identity Manager Schema/Tables/Table/Person go to the CentralAccount Column and then click on the Value Calculation. There you will see the scripts that are being used to define the CentralAccount. You can then go to the Script Library and edit the scripts to build the account the way you want. Since you will be editing the script, you will use CCC_AE_BuildCentralAccount and will have to modify both the Value Calculation and the custom script to pass Department info. 
 
Let me know if this give you enough info to get you started. 
 
Thanks, 
Craig

Sebastian.Kuebbeler · Answer

Hello acoromi, 
 
please refer to the description of the basic templating mechanisms here: 
 documents.software.dell.com/.../templates 
 
This information applies to all versions. 
Essentially putting a $ reference into a template will always (even if the $ reference is in a comment) create a listener on the referenced column. If the referenced column is changed the listener will trigger a recalculation for all subscribing templates. 
 
Identity Manager generally implements the Observer Pattern for event handling: 
 en.wikipedia.org/.../Observer_pattern 
 
This should have been covered in training. If you haven't received training please check out the options below. Training is mandatory for Identity Manager. 
 
Kind regards, 
Sebastian Kübbeler 
Technical Product Specialist 
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