Configure Default User Search to User Login attribute

In OIM 12c, The user search is by default comes with Display Name and Everytime you login and look for the user you have to select User Login from drop-down, to make this user search to User Login permanently follow the below mentioned steps:

1)      Take the backup of the oracle.iam.ui.view.war from the OIM Server location                 /idm/server/apps

2)      Copy the war at desktop

3)      Follow the below process to make the change in the war file.

To change this functionality you will need to customize the following file where the labels are set for defining default values: iam/iam-product/consoles/Identity/ManageUsersUI/adfmsrc/oracle/iam/ui/manageusers/pages/search_usersPageDef.xml

This file which is part of adflibManageUsersUI.jar which is is located in OIM_HOME\server\apps\oracle.iam.ui.view.war

Extract the jar file ,navigate to oracle.iam.ui - manageusers - pages - search_usersPageDef.xml .

In this the following section sets the default search attribute viz "DefaultQuickSearchAttrName" :

From:

<executables>

    <iterator Binds="UserVO1" RangeSize="25"
              DataControl="ManageUsersAMDataControl" id="UserVO1Iterator"/>
    <searchRegion Criteria="UserVOCriteria"
                  Customizer="oracle.jbo.uicli.binding.JUSearchBindingCustomizer"
                  Binds="UserVO1Iterator" id="UserVOCriteriaQuery"
                  InitialQueryOverridden="false"
                  DefaultQuickSearchAttrName="displayName"/>
  </executables>

To-

  <executables>
    <iterator Binds="UserVO1" RangeSize="25"
              DataControl="ManageUsersAMDataControl" id="UserVO1Iterator"/>
    <searchRegion Criteria="UserVOCriteria"
                  Customizer="oracle.jbo.uicli.binding.JUSearchBindingCustomizer"
                  Binds="UserVO1Iterator" id="UserVOCriteriaQuery"
                  InitialQueryOverridden="false"
                  DefaultQuickSearchAttrName="userLogin"/>
  </executables>

4)   Save it

5)   Copy the updated oracle.iam.ui.view.war in persistent volume location

6)   Login to weblogic console

7)   Click on deployments

8)   Lock and Edit

9)   Look for oracle.iam.ui.view

10)  Select the checkbox and click on update

11)  Click on change path

12)  And select the updated war from persistent volume location which is /u01/oracle/user_projects

13)  Click on Next

14)  Click on Next

15)  Click on Next

16)  Finish

17)  Click on Activate changes

18)  Ignore the Error

19)  Click on Activate Changes again.

20)  Restart the servers.

21)  Check if you see user login by default search.