Requesting Group Membership on Self-Service?

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.

to follow up Shawn point. "Published Groups" feature of the Self-Service Manager (SSM) was removed after ARS 6.7.

It is very possible one can utilize the feature by customization (though it might not be supported fully, especially utilizing not documented legacy attribute like edsvaPublished)

I heard, that some SSM functionality might come back. I recommend to open SR and ask devs on the matter. 

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.

Thank you Aidar? Any idea why they removed it?

At the time, there was a campaign to move customers to use Identity Manager Data Governance Edition instead.

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.

I am seeing the same request. The mentioned URL unfortunately isn't valid anymore and I need a starter how to add this to the SelfService website.