Participant Users for Forms Portal

asked on April 27, 2017

Hello,

We have forms 10.2 portal. We want to enable SSO with LFDS for participants.

Wanted to verify if the steps below are correct.
To enable LFDS authentication we have to update the forms db with INSERT INTO cf_options VALUES ('LFDSChoice',1) . We had forms 10 & then upgraded to 10.2.

Then once we add users to LFDS and assign participant license the users will show up in the participant tab in forms when we sync and they can log into forms using their user id.

Does this authentication affect weblink portal at all? I read the following in the help file "One of the benefits of using Laserfiche Directory Service is single sign-on across Laserfiche Web products. Users sign in to one Laserfiche web product and will be automatically signed in to all other Laserfiche web products they are licensed for. "

Thank you,

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replied on April 27, 2017

Forms Participants and Forms Portal are two different things. Forms Participants log into the Forms server without requiring a full named user license, but cannot be system or process administrators. Forms Portal allows Forms processes to be made "public" in that no authentication is required to submit the starting form for that process.

What you've described would affect Forms Participants but does not have anything to do with Forms Portal. Note that the step to upgrade the database is only required if Forms was upgraded from Forms 9 at some point, so it may not be necessary here. You can read more about Participants and other user roles here.

To leverage Forms Portal licensing, you would mark the starting form as public in the "Access Rights" tab when managing a form. You can read more about configuring process security here.

With regards to the last question, you are correct that Forms Portal and Public Portal licensing for use with WebLink are distinct. Further, WebLink does not support single sign-on with LFDS, as the latest version of WebLink predates LFDSSTS with LFDS 10.

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replied on April 27, 2017

Thank you James for the clarification.

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replied on May 2, 2017

Hello James.

We are trying to set up the User Authentication through LFDS and when we click the use LFDS User authentication and fill out the necessary information we get an error saying that the initial user is not a system administrator in forms. We have verified that the user is a system administrator on forms and we are logged in as the same user on forms config. Not sure what initial user is meant in the error?

Any insight will be helpful.

Thank you,

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