[keycloak-user] LDAP User Storage Provider web interface

[Marek Posolda]

I agree that probably none of the buttons makes much sense in case that  
"Import users" is switched to OFF. It will be good to add tooltips to 
them in the admin console and change UI to hide the 4 buttons with 
"Import Users" switched to OFF. Agree with Bruno that it will be nice if 
you contribute this as we probably won't have time to look at it in near 
future.

Marek

On 17/05/2019 22:34, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Ryan, I'm not sure if we have enough bandwidth to implement this, but
> we would gladly review any contribution. If you would like to jump in,
> please discuss the implementation details on keycloak-dev and if the
> others agree, file a Jira.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On 2019-05-10, Ryan Slominski wrote:
>> Hi Bruno,
>>    Sounds like all the buttons should be hidden in the scenario where users are not imported, defined, or even cached in Keycloak at all.   They aren’t currently and clicking the buttons is undefined in this case (hopefully they just do nothing).  Should I create a JIRA for this?
>> Ryan
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org>
>> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2019 9:01:47 AM
>> To: Ryan Slominski
>> Cc: keycloak-user
>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-user] LDAP User Storage Provider web interface
>>
>> Please take a look at our documentation:
>> https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.keycloak.org%2Fdocs%2Flatest%2Fserver_development%2Findex.html%23import-implementation-strategy&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cryans%40jlab.org%7Cdf7d703b46c54d2c493c08d6d547ab46%7Cb4d7ee1f4fb34f0690372b5b522042ab%7C1%7C1%7C636930901124223180&amp;sdata=2g0UDriht%2BYgeEdXFiT%2B9h0YKt9UfWwobcw%2BxRePxlM%3D&amp;reserved=0.
>>
>> I believe the item clarifies the "Unlink users":
>>
>> "If you are moving to Keycloak as your official user store and
>> deprecating the old external store, you can slowly migrate applications
>> to use Keycloak. When all applications have been migrated, unlink the
>> imported user, and retire the old legacy external store."
>>
>> Regards your other comments. I can be wrong, but I don't believe these
>> buttons will be hidden.
>>
>> On 2019-05-09, Ryan Slominski wrote:
>>> On the admin web interface what do the buttons at the bottom of the LDAP User Storage Provider settings page do?  Specifically the buttons:
>>>
>>> Synchronize changed users
>>> Synchronize all users
>>> Remove imported
>>> Unlink users
>>>
>>> I don't want Keycloak caching much / anything so I've configured Cache Policy NO_CACHE, Edit Mode READ_ONLY, and Import Users OFF.  It seems like these buttons should not be shown with this configuration as it isn't clear they do anything.  I'm especially mystified by Unlink users button since I can't find any reference on what the heck that does.
>>>
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