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

[Sander A. <sa....@fz...>]

Hi Krzysztof,
sorry for the delay.

The project allows and uses sub-projects. There are only registration
forms and sign-up enquiries configured. Both are available by
invitation only. We do not have membership update enquiries configured.

Do you need the full forms?

Best regards,
Sander


On Thu, 2022-09-29 at 18:01 +0200, Krzysztof Benedyczak wrote:
> 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
>  

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