XML Representation of Reports and Instances

Standard report templates are represented in the IdentityIQ object model as TaskDefinition objects. The XML representation of these can be seen in the IdentityIQ Debug pages by selecting Task Definition from the Object Browser list and searching for the report's name in the Name column.

When a report is saved as a customized instance, a new XML object is created in the system to represent its custom configuration. The instance's XML is far simpler than the template's because it references the template for most of the report generation details.

Details on these XML representations are explored further in Developing Custom Reports.