This section provides information useful in understanding Tivoli® Directory Integrator essentials, as well as a set of tutorial exercises to give you hands-on experience with the development environment.
Your first step in getting to know the product is to start the Tivoli Directory Integrator development tooling, known as the Configuration Editor, or CE for short.
The first time that you start up the CE, you will see get this dialog for specifying your workspace.
Your workspace is where the Configuration Editor will store your project files, including components and AssemblyLines, and it is typically located under your Solution Directory.
Once you are happy with the location of your workspace press the OK button. Now the Welcome Screen will appear.
The Welcome screen offers a number of quick-start links1.
Whenever you build, test or modify integration solutions with Tivoli Directory Integrator, you are working within a project. Projects are collections of AssemblyLines and their constituent components, and each project appears in its own sub-folder of your workspace. The AssemblyLines and components that make up a project are stored as individual files, which in turn are located in sub-directories of the project folder.
Select the second link from the top of this page2 (Create Tivoli Directory Integrator Project) to set up your first project. You must now give your new project a name. Call it 'Tutorial' and press Finish.
You will now see the main development work area. The panels here can all be resized, and you can decide how the screen is organized. What you see on screen here is the default 'TDI' Perspective3.
This is the main screen where you will spend most of your time when working with Tivoli Directory Integrator. Without going into the details of all the navigational elements here4, let's look at the numbered areas highlighted in the above screenshot:
Note that whenever you launch an AssemblyLine, both the Config Instance6 and the AL also show up in this panel.