topic Re: precious inviteTicket in Alfresco Archive

precious inviteTicket

cszamudio — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:13:59 GMT

Hi,I've been struggling with this for a bit now, so I thought I'd ask for help. I am attempting to use the Invite web scripts to integrate the ability for users to accept or reject invitations from within my application. I can successfully retrieve the invitations for a user using the /alfresco/ser

Re: precious inviteTicket

mrogers — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:26:02 GMT

The "ticket" is on the invitation email only.

It's a security feature that it's not available by any other interface.

And there are already scripts to accept or reject the invitation.

Re: precious inviteTicket

cszamudio — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:33:01 GMT

Thank you for your prompt response. Just a clarification for future reference. What do you mean "there are already scripts to accept or reject the invitation"? The scripts that are described in the REST reference documentation (3.0) require the inviteTicket. If the ticket only appears in the email message response, then accepting or rejecting invitations is not something that can be done in an application.(although the Share we user interface has the ability to reject or accept as part of the Tasks widget). Are there any other scripts that I can use in an application to accept/reject an invitation? Sorry for being little dense here…

Carlos S. Zamudio

Re: precious inviteTicket

mrogers — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:49:55 GMT

Currently the invitation process is based upon email and you will need the ticket which appears on that email to accept.

Perhaps if your requirement is less "invitation" and more "programatically add users to a share site" you could to use SiteService.setMembership() instead? Or alternatively just add a single group membership and add users to that group.

Re: precious inviteTicket

cszamudio — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:03:06 GMT

Thanks so much. I get it. I'm developing a rich client application that interfaces with Alfresco. I've been able to use the Web Services for most of my work, but now I'd like to integrate with some Alfresco features that appear to only be accessible from the REST/Web Scripts API. Keeping track and organizing invitation requests and other workflow tasks that require user action is something that I'm paying attention to now.

(How do you imagine the Share Dashboard provides the ability for a user to accept/reject an Invitation from the Tasks widget? Does it do as you suggest and interface with Site Services?)

Re: precious inviteTicket

mrogers — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:10:43 GMT

It's a while since I worked on the invitation service but the the thing is that if you have access to the tasks dashlet then you already have an active alfresco account and are already authenticated, therefore you don't need the ticket. The invite ticket stuff is mainly for a user who does not yet have an "alfresco password". So the ticket is a temporary authentication token.

Re: precious inviteTicket

cszamudio — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:23:00 GMT

Thanks. I promise I won't beat this to death, but it would seem then that there must be a way to run some REST/Web Script that doesn't require an inviteTicket since I can provide the required authentication via the HTTP client in my application (this works for the other REST/Web Scripts that I use - for example, I can retrieve all of the workflow tasks assigned to a user using this method). Anyway, thanks for the hints. If I discover a work-around I'll post it here for others to review in case it's useful. Cheers.