Navigate to the Questions Search page, as described in

Managing Knowledge-Based Authentication 7-17 7. Each question can be assigned unique validations to control the answers a user is allowed to register. To assign a local validation, select the validation type from the Registration Validation list. The local validations you select in this step control the answers a user is allowed to register for this particular question. It does not control the registration of answers for all questions. For information on the difference between global and local validations, refer to Section 7.1.9, Validations.

8. In the Answer Logic Hints list, select the type of Answer Logic Hint you want.

A hint can be added to questions individually to affect the Answer Logic used to evaluate given answers. This is performed to better tune the logic for the type of question. This is especially important for date related questions. These hints help the Answer Logic function more successfully on some questions, for example, on date related questions. If a question has the date answer hint applied then the abbreviations, phonetics and fat fingering Answer Logic runs first, and then special date format logic is applied.

9. Click Apply. A confirmation dialog appears telling you that the question was

created successfully.

10. Click OK to dismiss the dialog.

The Question Detail page appears for the newly created question. After the question has been created, you can edit details.

7.5.4 Creating a Question Like Another Question

To create a new question that is similar to an existing question:

1. Navigate to the Questions Search page, as described in

Section 7.4, Accessing Configurations in KBA Administration.

2. From the Questions Search page, select the row corresponding to the question of

interest.

3. Click the Create Like icon.

The Create Like dialog appears with pre-populated data from the original question. Pre-populated fields are Category, Locale, Status, Answer Logic Hints, and Registration Validations. Question, Category, Status and Locale are required fields. The Create Like icon is disabled if multiple rows are selected. You can create a question for any locale.

4. Type the new question in the Question field.

Note: The deployment administrator must ensure that there are enough questions in the database for each of the supported locale as configured in OAAM Admin during deployment; otherwise, OAAM Server displays only the English language questions during registration. The number of locale-specific questions must be equal to or greater than the Questions User Will Register multiplied by the Questions per Menu multiplied by the Categories per Menu. 7-18 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 5. Edit any of the other fields if you want.

6. Click OK.

The Question Detail page appears for the newly created question. If you click Cancel, the Questions Search page appears.

7.5.5 Editing a Question

The Question Details page enables you to activatedisable questions and edit the question, question category, locale, and registration and answer validation. Read-only question statistics are available in the Question Statistics section. If you edit a question, users using that question receive the updated question. To edit a question

1. Navigate to the Questions Search page, as described in

Section 7.4, Accessing Configurations in KBA Administration.

2. In the Questions Search page, search for the questions you are interested in.

3. Click the hyperlinked question you want to edit. The Question Details page appears. 4. Make the changes you want. You cannot edit the Question ID or last updated time. 5. Click Apply to save the changes or Revert to discard them. If you click Revert, the edited details are reverted to the initial state.

7.5.6 Importing Questions

To import questions:

1. Navigate to the Questions Search page, as described in

Section 7.4, Accessing Configurations in KBA Administration.

2. In the Questions Search page, click Import Questions or select Import Selected

from the Actions menu. 3. In the Import Questions dialog, type the path and name of the file; or use the Browse ... button to locate the ZIP file that contains the questions, and then select the file.

4. Click Open and then click Import.

If you import questions that belong to a category not currently in the system, the category is also imported. If you import a question with the same ID number as an existing question, the existing question is overwritten. A confirmation dialog displays the status of the operation and a list of questions that were imported into the system.

5. Click Done.

7.5.7 Exporting Questions

Multiple questions can be selected and exported. To export questions: