Create an instance

In addition to the wizards that specifically create documents, folders, and custom objects, there is a generic wizard that system administrators can use to create and persist an object of any instantiable class. You can use this wizard to create objects of classes such as Link, Referential Containment Relationship (RCR), and others, assuming you know the required and optional property values you want and how they are defined by the class.

NOTE  To successfully run the Create an Instance Wizard, you will very likely need to copy object references into Enterprise Manager's paste buffer so that they are available for pasting into the wizard's property grid. For example, if you are creating a document, in order to assign a security policy you must copy the object reference of the security policy into the paste buffer. Then when you run the Create an Instance Wizard, you can right click and paste this value into the Security Policy row of the property grid.

To create an instance of a class

  1. Right click the class you want to create an instance of.
  2. Select All tasks > Create an instance of this class.
  3. Complete the wizard.

NOTE  Enterprise Manager will not display the created object under the class node. You can, however, run a query and view or modify the created object in the Search Results node.

See Enterprise Manager Wizard Help for a list of all wizards and how to launch them.