Re: [Unity-idm-discuss] invitations from upman

[Krzysztof B. <kb...@un...>]

Hi Sander,

Coming back to those issues

W dniu 8.09.2022 o 13:04, Sander Apweiler pisze:
> If a user sends an invitation into a subgroup of a project to an
> collaborator who is already member of another subgroup of this project
> and the collaborator accepts the invitation, the collaborator is
> removed from the previous subgroup. I don't know if this is intended by
> you, but I assume most users won't expect this behaviour. Especially in
> large projects with many users and subgroups it might be difficult to
> check if the invited person is already member of another subgroup.

Yes, we can confirm that.

1. Why this happens? The enquiry form which is used to invite an 
existing Unity user to a new project/group is set to be sticky. Sticky 
forms needs to be actively launched, are never shown automatically by 
Unity. Sticky forms also allow for modifying existing state of user's 
account, this is in fact "edit yourself" form. Non-sticky forms are 
collecting data which should be added to existing account.

Now the form called by default <SomeProject>JoinEnquiry is set to be 
sticky as it can be enabled in HomeUI, so that users can apply for 
membership on their own (i.e. w/o invitation). Non sticky form would 
appear for each user entering any Unity endpoint. And as you noticed 
this is causing edit of the account, and overwriting user's groups when 
used in the by invitation flow.

2. Workaround. *If you don't use the feature to allow users to request 
project membership from HomeUI*, it should be possible to quickly fix 
the problem. Just in the ...JoinEnquiry form change two settings:

i.e. make it non sticky and by invitation only. This will allow to 
invite users but the groups overwriting will disappear.

3. We are thinking about a proper solution, working also in the case 
when self-requested membership is enabled. Will keep you informed. Most 
likely this won't make it into the next release though.


> The usability enhancement is about resending invitations. Resending is
> only possible if the invitation is still valid. The user asked if it
> wouldn't be possible to resend them even if they are invalid and set a
> new expiration date
>
That was fixed, will be released in 3.11, coming out soon.

Best,
Krzysztof