Hi Francesco,

fine - I think password reset by e-mail authentication without an additional 
security question is used frequently enough to justify making the security 
question optional.

Cheers,
  Guido


> Gesendet: Montag, 29. September 2014 um 09:08 Uhr
> Von: "Francesco Chicchiriccò" <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: Notifications based on performed workflow tasks
>
> On 26/09/2014 17:01, Guido Wimmel wrote:
> > Hi Francesco,
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > We currently do not use Activiti, but a Java implementation of 
> > UserWorkflowAdapter.
> > Of course, we can also include explicit notifications in a similar way as 
> > in [1] - so far we had implicit notifications controlled by the performed 
> > task. Probably making the notifications explicit in the workflow is easier 
> > to understand anyway.
> >
> > The solution to SYNCOPE-135 is very interesting, perhaps it can replace 
> > part of a simple custom implementation we have which works in a similar 
> > way. Though we don't use security questions for password reset - are they 
> > mandatory?
> 
> Hi Guido,
> security questions are currently mandatory for password reset, but it 
> might be the case to make their usage optional - with less security, of 
> course.
> I have re-opened SYNCOPE-135 for this purpose.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> >> Gesendet: Freitag, 26. September 2014 um 09:20 Uhr
> >> Von: "Francesco Chicchiriccò" <[email protected]>
> >> An: [email protected]
> >> Betreff: Re: Notifications based on performed workflow tasks
> >>
> >> On 25/09/2014 17:29, Guido Wimmel wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> up to Syncope 1.1.4, notifications could be sent based on the performed 
> >>> tasks as reported back by the UserWorkflowAdapter (e.g. 
> >>> UserController.create(): 
> >>> notificationManager.createTasks(created.getResult().getKey(), 
> >>> created.getPerformedTasks()).
> >>>
> >>> Since Syncope 1.1.5, this was apparently changed (via SYNCOPE-423) such 
> >>> that the event passed to the notification manager to determine which 
> >>> notification is sent is only based on the method name in the 
> >>> ...Controller-Class. Even if you execute a workflow task via 
> >>> UserWorkflowController.executeWorkflowTask(), you only get 
> >>> "executeWorkflowTask" as an event.
> >>>
> >>> Is this correct? If so, is there another way currently to use the 
> >>> performed task to decide which notifications are sent?
> >> Hi Guido,
> >> as you correctly report above, with Syncope 1.1.5+ (including 1.2.X) the
> >> notification mechanism has completely changed and is now much more
> >> powerful than it used to be: you can get notified of nearly any event
> >> occurring in the system (by empowering aspect programming).
> >> But as you know, power comes at a price: sending notifications from
> >> workflow is now slightly different.
> >>
> >> As part of SYNCOPE-135 - which I should be able to resolve today - I
> >> have developed a simple general-purpose notification triggering utility
> >> [1] available to be invoked from within Activiti workflow; as you can
> >> see, such class can be easily backported to 1.1.X (or even copied over
> >> with minimal modifications to any overlay project for Syncope 1.1.5+).
> >>
> >> Basically, the idea is to define notification for CUSTOM events - see
> >> [2] (first notification defined there) - and then to trigger such
> >> notifications from within workflow by using the Notify task as said
> >> above; naturally, you'll need to match the event string provided for the
> >> CUSTOM notification with the 'event' workflow variable to trigger the
> >> desired notification.
> >>
> >> At least an explaining wiki page is worthwhile for this new mechanism;
> >> backporting [1] to branch 1_1_X is also desirable.
> >>
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> [1] 
> >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/syncope/branches/1_2_X/core/src/main/java/org/apache/syncope/core/workflow/user/activiti/task/Notify.java
> >> [2] 
> >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/syncope/branches/1_2_X/core/src/main/resources/content.xml
> 
> -- 
> Francesco Chicchiriccò
> 
> Tirasa - Open Source Excellence
> http://www.tirasa.net/
> 
> Involved at The Apache Software Foundation:
> member, Syncope PMC chair, Cocoon PMC, Olingo PMC
> http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
> 
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