{"id":2965,"date":"2016-11-16T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2022-08-20T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T22:56:03","slug":"iam-design-principal-user-status-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/iam-design-principal-user-status-values","title":{"rendered":"IAM Design Principle: User Status Values"},"content":{"rendered":"

A field indicating a person’s “status” with respect to the organisation is a standard feature of all IAM implementations. Over many solutions I’ve boiled it down to four status values that satisfy all the lifecycle use cases I’ve come across:<\/p>\n

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  1. Pending<\/strong> – We know about this person but their hire (or re-hire) date is in the future,<\/li>\n
  2. Active<\/strong> – Active employment or other relationship,<\/li>\n
  3. Suspended<\/strong> – A temporary state where all accounts are disabled but otherwise unchanged, perhaps due to long leave or temporary suspension of duties,<\/li>\n
  4. Inactive<\/strong> – Relationship with the organisation has ceased.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The designer of the IAM solution shouldn’t have to be concerned with why<\/em> a person is in any one of these states – all we need to know is:<\/p>\n

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    • how to identify the status, and<\/li>\n
    • what to do when the status changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Obviously the status is sometimes combined with other attribute values to determine actions, but these are the four status values I have found to be generally applicable across a range of solutions and organisation types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      A field indicating a person’s “status” with respect to the organisation is a standard feature of all IAM implementations. Over many solutions I’ve boiled it down to four status values that satisfy all the lifecycle use cases I’ve come across: Pending – We know about this person but their hire (or re-hire) date is in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkp1o-LP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}