OIM Howto: Date based enable/disable of resources

In some cases you don't want to give a user access to a resource immediately but rather start the access at a certain point in time. In a similar fashion you may not want to give the access permanently but rather up until a certain end date.

There is a number of ways to implement this but I would recommend using the following approach:

1. Add start date and end date to the process form.
2. As a part of the provisioning process add a step that disables the resource if the start date hasn't happened yet or end date has passed.
3. Create a scheduled task that checks all provisioned resources of this type and enables/disables as appropriate given the start date and end dates.

Another option is to hold the object in provisioning state until the start date hits (add a task to the provisioning process that checks the date, let the scheduled task re execute the provisioning task).