IPA Email Action buttons

Earlier versions of Landmark/IPA did not require authentication when using an action button within an Email. I understand it's turned on by default now for new installations of later versions, but if you upgraded, it remained off. Does anyone know where that setting is and how to turn it on?

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unknown

Open up your Landmark Technology InfoCenter and search for "email action". Your first hit will be "Requiring authentication for email actions".

jreese

Keith,
We are running on IPA 10.1.1.18 and I believe I should be able to set the required authentication at the node level or at least control it by the actual process running. I didn't see anything beyond the Requiring authentication article you mention above. How can I control it per process? I was thinking that if I set the emaiActionAuthenticationRequired in configuration sets other than the system configuration set, I could point the UserAction node to that set name and it would either require authentication or not based on the property value in that configuration set. Is that how it works?

unknown

If authentication is turned on for email actions, this is applied to the data area. Currently, there isn't a way to apply it on a more granular level.
The property is set on the "System" configuration set. If it is set on another configuration set, it is not read.

To answer Jeremy's question, this setting is NOT enabled by default.

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jreese

Are there plans to allow it to be set a t a more granular level? I really don't want to require requisition approvers to have to login to do an approval but would want it invoked for HR or Payroll actions.

unknown

@jreese: There is a current enhancement request entered for this. Here is how it reads:
"Add ability to require email action authen at the user action node level.
There is a global setting to require email action authen, but some customers have required more granular control.
On user action nodes, three settings are recommended:
1. Use default (i.e., use the global setting to determine if email action authen is required)
2. Require email action authen (no matter how the global setting is configured)
3. Do not require email action authen (no matter how the global setting is configured) "

Does that meet your needs?

jreese

The enhancement, if delivered, will meet my needs. I will just have to work with the current.

unknown

This was a security issue and was allowing actions to be taken without authentication. I believe it is turned on by default now.

clin

In our version, setting for email authentication can be found in System Configuration->System->Add property named "emailActionAuthenticationRequired" and set value to true to enable authentication

clin

In our version, setting for email authentication can be found in System Configuration->System->Add property named "emailActionAuthenticationRequired" and set value to true to enable authentication

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