Thursday, September 25, 2008
Authentication: standard, http, LDAP
Teamwork currently (3.2.8) supports a built-in, we’ll call it “standard”, authentication (notice that Teamwork works fine also under https) , which is the usual login, and authentication provided by the container, we’ll call it “http authentication”. This allows both single-sign-on support and also LDAP authentication through say the Tomcat container, as detailed in the forum.We are empowering authentication with a third modality, by having Teamwork contact directly the LDAP server, and also importing and updating users from LDAP via a scheduled job if needed. All this includes Active Directory; in this way, your LDAP will be the source of users and authentication. This third modality we’ll call it “LDAP”. It will make integration very easy, feasible completely just through the web interface. :-)
If users will require it, it will be quite easy to integrate also OpenId authentication.
UPDATE: Teamwork 3.2.9 includes direct LDAP import and authentication: see
Labels: authentication, ldap, TeamworkTalk
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The evolution of Teamwork 3 - 4
What will be produced for the next releases? We are currently developing several features to enrich further 3 and eventually 4 releases of capabilities which will extend Teamwork user friendliness and integrability.
Some examples of user friendliness:
- full text searches, and a fast search unified interface
- ranking of all actions done, hence availability of new web parts for "popular" objects
Some examples of user friendliness:
- full text searches, and a fast search unified interface
- ranking of all actions done, hence availability of new web parts for "popular" objects
All this goes in the direction of making the application smarter about what you want to see and do first. In this perspective, we are also doing first experiments for building a new client, which will have limited but extremely intuitive functionality - more on this in future posts.
Integrability:
- all objects available as web services, allowing data mashups, custom clients etc.
- LDAP import/export
Integrability:
- all objects available as web services, allowing data mashups, custom clients etc.
- LDAP import/export
Labels: full text search, ldap, ranking, web services
