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• Type: The type you wish to be populated in cm_identifiers:type. Note that Extended Types are available for Identifiers.
• Email Type: If you select a type of "Mail" (ie: email), this field will become active. If you select an email type, then then cm_email_addresses will be populated instead of of cm_identifiers.
• Login: In general, CO Person identifiers are not used to log in to COmanage services (Organizational Identities are), so this should generally be left unchecked.
• Algorithm: See Specifying Identifier Formats, below.
• Format: See Specifying Identifier Formats, below. If no format is specified, identifiers will simply be assigned as an integer, eg 109 or 523788.
• Permitted Characters: See Specifying Identifier Formats, below.
• Minimum: For Random identifiers, the minimum value that may be assigned. For Sequential identifiers, the first value to be assigned.
• Maximum: For Random identifiers, the maximum value that may be assigned. Currently, the maximum may not exceed the value returned by PHP's mt_getrandmax() function, which is likely 2,147,483,647.

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Furthermore, if any sequenced segment generates text consisting only of non-permitted characters, it will be skipped.

 Auto-generated identifiers are subject to Identifier Validation.

Assigning Identifiers on Demand

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Next, determine the affix or affixes. These are equivalent to the format with parameters substituted (with %s replacing (#)). For example, a format used to generate identifiers consisting of a person's initials might be (G:1)(M:1)(F:1)(#). You would need to create a row for each initial sequence you wish to set the sequence number for. eg:

SQL> insert into cm_co_sequential_identifier_assignments
     (co_identifier_assignment_id, last, affix)
     values (3, 122, 'jms%s');
SQL> insert into cm_co_sequential_identifier_assignments
     (co_identifier_assignment_id, last, affix)
     values (3, 176, 'rdm%s');
SQL> insert into cm_co_sequential_identifier_assignments
     (co_identifier_assignment_id, last, affix)
     values (3, 143, 'rlm%s');

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