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

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

Sander,

A correction :-)

W dniu 29.09.2022 o 17:18, Krzysztof Benedyczak pisze:
> 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.
>
I was just made aware by my colleague that what is above is only 
partially correct. Or better said it is correct, but after some (IMHO 
unlikely) reconfiguration of the default enquiry forms. Sorry for the noise!

After joint session with my colleague, it seems that we have troubles 
reproducing this issuey. Can you please describe the scenario more 
closely? What is the setup of projects and (if used) sub projects? What 
ways to invite are used? We have run bunch of tests here and all were 
working fine. The only reproduction which we were able to have was in so 
unlikely situation that I even won't waste your time describing it...

Thank you,
Krzysztof