[keycloak-user] Back to application link is not shown on the success screen after a reset password action

[Stian Thorgersen]

If you initiate the action through the admin console there's no application
to go back to. Unless we add an option in the admin console to specify the
client that is.

On 1 February 2016 at 13:46, Edgar Vonk - Info.nl <Edgar at info.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Considering the following scenario:
> 1/ Admin performs a ‘Reset Action’ on the user from the admin console
> (Manage - Users - Credentials). In our case an ‘Update password’ action and
> send the ‘Reset Actions Email’.
> 2/ User receives the reset action email with a link back to Keycloak.
> 3/ User follows the link, sets his/her password.
> 4/ User is now shown a success screen stating "Your account has been
> updated.” only. There is no link to the application or anything. The user
> is left on his/her own.
>
> This happens because in
> AuthenticationManager#nextActionAfterAuthentication the ‘skipLink’
> attribute is set to true. This results in the info.ftl template not showing
> the ‘back to application’ link.
>
> I think in this case the link should be shown however. Otherwise the user
> has no idea where to go to next. In fact I think the ‘back to application’
> link should nearly always be shown. So for now we have simply removed the
> {{<#if skipLink??>}} check in the info.ftl in our custom email theme. I do
> wonder why this ‘skipLink’ functionality was built in the first place? Does
> it not make sense to remove it altogether maybe?
>
> cheers
>
>
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