Create Locations

In order to manage resources, those resources must belong somewhere. In EmpowerID, this "somewhere" is an object known as an "EmpowerID Location" or "Location." These locations are user-defined logical representations of the organizational and geographical structure of an enterprise that you can map to actual resource locations in the enterprise's external directories or simply use them as containers for delegation purposes.

If you are creating an EmpowerID Location to manage resources in an external directory, be sure to map the location to that external location; otherwise, changes made to any objects in the new location are not reflected in the external location.

In the navigation sidebar, expand Role Management and click Business Roles and Locations.
From the Business Roles and Locations page, click the Actions tab, and then click Create Location.
From the General Tab of the Location Details form that appears, do the following:
1. Enter a name and description in the Name, Display Name and Description fields.
2. In the Icon field, enter the path to the icon to use for the Business Role.
3. Select Is Assignable if you want to allow resources to be assigned to the location. Otherwise, leave it unselected.
4. Clear Show in Location Tree if you want to keep the location from showing in Location trees.
5. Select Block Inheritance if you want to prevent access granted to people in this location from being assigned to people in any child locations.
6. Select Do Not Allow Delete if you want to disable deletion of the Location from the Web interface. Otherwise, leave it unselected.
7. Below Parent Location, click the Select a Location link to open the Location Selector.
8. From the Location Selector, search for and select the appropriate Parent Location and then click Save to close the Location Selector.
9. Select the location type from the Location Type drop-down.
10. Under Address, delete the Default Location, then click inside the Address box and press Enter to select an address.
11. Optionally click inside the Company box and press Enter to select a company for the location.
Optionally click the Extension tab and add extension attributes as needed.
Click Save to create the Location.

If you are creating a location for an external organization such as a partner, select Organization - Security Container as the type. This lets you apply Visibility Restriction policies against the location that limit the ability of people in the organization to see resources that do not belong to the location.