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Requesting Group Membership on Self-Service?

julia mirabella
over 4 years ago

Good Evening,

Not sure if this has been answered somewhere else, but I was looking to see if I could be pointed in the right direction for the following problem: I was curious to know if it is possible for a user, via the self-service web portal, bring up a list of groups that they could request access to, either temporal or longer. This would essentially kick off a workflow/approval which would go to the owner of said group to grant permission. I just am a bit lost on how to present a pre-defined list of groups to a standard user in which they could request access via Self-Service.

Any feedback would be most appreciated!! Thank you kindly!

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  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Hi, Julia.

    There are some remnant pieces in the product from a time when it actually included the behaviour that you're requesting as an out-of-the-box offering. Specifically, I'm thinking of the fact that there is still an edsvaPublished virtual attribute. The idea was that a group owner could mark their group as "published". The self-service site then had a section where you could list all of the "published" groups and request to add yourself to whichever ones you like. The still-present primary/secondary owner approval rules can then take care of the approval portion of your request.

    Hence, all you really need to do is create a new virtual attribute, say "edsvaGroupRequests", as an example, in the DN syntax, multivalued, then apply an LDAP filter when adding that attribute to the Self Service site (e.g., "(&(objectClass=group)(edsvaPublished=true))", and you're off to the races.

    The TL;DR version is this: yes, what you're asking for can be done with a little bit of customisation work.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Shawn.Ferrier

    Thank you so much for the information Shawn! I apologize, but since I am new to ARS, is there some documentation/tutorial on how to start doing this? Thank you kindly.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to julia mirabella

    Hi, Julia.

    The best place to start is probably the Customising the Web Interface section of the Web Interface Admin Guide. There is also a Creating and using virtual attributes section of the Active Roles Admin Guide that will talk about the special attribute that I referred to.

    Hope that helps!
    Shawn.

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