Hello,
I want to manage users and the groups they belong to from inside an outsystems developed application. My application is built as a reactive app and the only inhouse examples I have are traditional; so I cannot easily use them. I have created screens to list users of the app, users who do not have the app, and the groups of the app that a user is assigned to.
What I need to accomplish is changing the users groups on screen (easy enough) and then send those updates back to the user, role, and user_role tables (I know this is what outsystems calls the datasources). It seems like this should be a simple operation with Outsystems, but I am not finding anything simple to explain how to make this happen.
We are using the Microsoft Login Connector Reactive; the demo does not show me how to do what I want.
I found the following, but it is from 2011, which also does not meet my need exactly. https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/7399/how-to-manage-users-and-roles/
Any help is appreciated, even pointing me to more articles.
Thanks.
Hi,
Why does the Users app of OutSystems (as described in the link you shared) not fill your need?
This is the official documentation:
https://success.outsystems.com/Documentation/11/Developing_an_Application/Secure_the_Application/End_Users/Access_the_Users_application
This is the app provided by OutSystems to define users, groups, userroles and group users and roles.
Furthermore it allows you to reset passwords, remove any lock on users that failed to login within 3 attempts and set users active or inactive.
there are examples in the Forge of custom made user management also in reactive:
https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component-overview/13511/user-management-reactive
And also videos about how to manage users of create your own user management:
https://youtu.be/eB5XJ_NiUtM
https://youtu.be/cUqt0tD_Pi8
Regards,
Daniel
I marked the first message as the answer, because that is where I located what I need. What I needed was the user module information which is mentioned in the first video. Nothing that I used was specifically mentioned, but the video led me to the solution.
Daniël Kuhlmann,
Thank you for the extra details in your response. When I get the chance I will review them and hopefully that will provide me the answers that I seek.
We are using the Microsoft Connector so our users are coming in from Active Directory (with their AD passwords). We want certain app admins to be able to add users to the app or edit group membership, but that is all.
Ok now you share new information that would have been very useful to share in your original question. If you use a specific Forge component and have a question about it, then It helps to mention the Forge component too on your original request.
I guess you mean Azure AD and not AD, correct?
When you use the Microsoft Connector, there is a feature to automatically map the groups on an Azure account to OutSystems roles.
Also, the Microsoft Connector automatically can create and maintain the OutSystems users for you.
There should be no need to manually maintain OutSystems Users accounts, your Azure AD should be the single source of truth. The OutSystems users are just a form of cache you need to handle OutSystems authentication, authorization and sessions, as well as and to fulfil OutSystems licence requirements.
Kind regards,
So this is the second time I mentioned the Microsoft Connector and I provided no new information about the problem.
I will say that your responses give me the impression that you did not read my "question."
I appreciate the information that you provided. It appears that the YouTube videos have the information that I require.
You are right, and I was wrong you did mention in your first question indeed the Microsoft Login connector.