topic IdentityService vs. UserService in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/identityservice-vs-userservice/m-p/215923#M169053 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm using activiti-app v1.4.1 and LDAP sync to fill 'user' and 'group' (and also add some users/groups manually from the activiti-app-gui (IdentityManagement))</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Then I'm using activiti-engine 5.19 API (RuntimeService, TaskService, etc) in another module of our system.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But, the IdentityService is using the tables 'act_id_user' and 'act_id_group' which make it a bit… hard to find the users I want (the tables are empty)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have found some forum threads of how to write my own UserService (and connect them to the 'user' and 'group' tables)…</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Another solution would be to not only depend on the activiti-engine in our seperate module, but the 'UserService' in activiti-app-logic.jar…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've been informed that the 'act_id_user' and 'act_id_group' will be removed in a later release, correct?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>What would be the proper way?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Just wait on the next release, where IdentityService using the same tables as UserService? Write my own service? Make our seperate module depend on activit-app-logic.jar?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:42:18 GMT johlyn 2016-02-19T12:42:18Z IdentityService vs. UserService https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/identityservice-vs-userservice/m-p/215923#M169053 Hi,I'm using activiti-app v1.4.1 and LDAP sync to fill 'user' and 'group' (and also add some users/groups manually from the activiti-app-gui (IdentityManagement))Then I'm using activiti-engine 5.19 API (RuntimeService, TaskService, etc) in another module of our system.But, the IdentityService is usi Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:42:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/identityservice-vs-userservice/m-p/215923#M169053 johlyn 2016-02-19T12:42:18Z Re: IdentityService vs. UserService https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/identityservice-vs-userservice/m-p/215924#M169054 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Indeed, the identityService (and its tables) are not used in the enterprise version.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The reason is because the identityService and its implementation is pretty soft when it comes to security.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>They might indeed be removed in a future release.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In the Activiti BPM Suite, there is a UserService, GroupService, … which you can use (as a Spring bean) to get that data.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In your db, you can see they live under USERS, GROUPS, etc. tables.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:23:48 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/identityservice-vs-userservice/m-p/215924#M169054 jbarrez 2016-02-24T09:23:48Z