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Creating SCOadmin wizards

Creating SCOadmin wizards

The wizard framework consists of a set of routines that supplement the SCOadmin framework, allowing you to create a specific type of SCOadmin application known as a ``wizard''. Wizards represent a common, form-based mechanism for obtaining user input necessary to perform a system management task. The user is asked to complete all the questions on all forms before any operation is taken by the wizard.

Unlike SCOadmin managers, which are used to perform a wide variety of tasks, wizards are intended to be single-purpose tools. Although the operations they perform can be complex, wizards simplify a task by prompting the user for the information necessary to perform the task. For example, the SCOadmin Setup Wizard sets up system owners and the necessary remote access permissions (user equivalence) for system owners to administer a set of machines. Without this wizard, the user would have to run the Account Manager several times with as many menu selections to accomplish the same task.


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