Difna's Efforts in Campus !: External User Authentication And Notifications And Cases in Processmaker

We can authenticate external users from LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ) or Active Directory

LDAP => industry standard Application Protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed dirctory information services over an Internet Protocol(IP)
When we want to develope an intranet or an internet application by allowing sharing of information of users , systems throughout the network, Directory Services are important

Active Directory (AD) => directory service developed for Windows domain

With external authentication , user profiles can be imported so users can use the same username and password in Processmaker as they use in other applications.

ProcessMaker supports multiple authentication sources, so that one user may be verified by ProcessMaker, another by LDAP, another by Active Directory, etc.

ProcessMaker Community Edition only offers manual import of LDAP and Active Directory users and doesn't support importing departments.

Extremely useful for enterprise users, LDAP seamlessly joins ProcessMaker with your organization’s existing user accounts by authenticating existing users from an external server (LDAP, Active Directory, or other),
this greatly increases flexibility
ease the user management in ProcessMaker.

http://wiki.processmaker.com/index.php/2.0/External_Authentication

NOTIFICATIONS

There are three types of notifications:

Task Notifications, which are sent when a user is designated to work on a task in a case.The content is plain text which is configured in the properties
Message Events, which are sent at specified timings based upon when tasks (or groups of tasks) begin in a case.
Trigger Messages, which are sent out using the PMFSendMessage() function.

Processmaker need to be properly configured to connect to an e-mail server in order to use the above notifications

The subject line and body of these email notifications can be customized and system variables and case variables can be inserted into their content so each notification is personalized for the recipient with data from the current case.

Configuration => http://wiki.processmaker.com/index.php/2.0/Email_-_Settings