A flexible user solution for Plone Intranet

How we combined Prototype-driven design, PAS, dexterity, z3c.form and LDAP to develop out-of-the-box user profiles for Plone Intranet which provide authentication, customisable profile fields and support for external user data sources (e.g. AD/LDAP)

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1. ploneintranet.userprofile a flexible user solution for plone intranet Matthew Sital-Singh Senior Developer Netsight Intranet Solutions @mattss
2. ploneintranet.userprofile a flexible user solution for plone intranet Matthew Sital-Singh Senior Developer Netsight Intranet Solutions @mattss
3. User Stories As a [user type] I want to be able to [user action] So that I can [fulfilling user dream]
4. User Stories As a human being I want to be able to do my job quickly So that I can go to the pub
6. Developer Stories
7. Developer Stories As an integrator I want to be able to customise a deployment without monkey patching code So I can sleep at night
8. Developer Stories
9. Developer Stories Hide fields Reorder fields Add new fields Change field labels Change field validators Mark fields as read-only Change field permissions Load a subset of fields from an external source (AD/LDAP)
10. Plone Intranet Rules Tested, proven default OOB solution No hard external dependencies Design-led UI and UX No z3c.form
12. Plone Intranet Rules Tested, proven default OOB solution No hard external dependencies Design-led UI and UX No z3c.form guidelines some
13. The Solution dx.membrane z3c.form plone.app.registry deploy customise behaviours PAS integrate extend no monkeypatching = more sleep
14. Deploy dx.membrane z3c.form
15. Deploy dx.membrane users as content search integration
16. Deploy dx.membrane z3c.form
17. Customise plone.app.registry dx.membrane z3c.form
18. Customise plone.app.registry dx.membrane z3c.form ploneintranet.userprofile.hidden_fields ploneintranet.userprofile.read_only_fields
19. Extend behaviours dx.membrane
20. Integrate pas.plugins.velruse plone.app.registry dx.membrane PAS plugin X plone.app.ldap
21. Integrate pas.plugins.velruse plone.app.registry PAS plugin X plone.app.ldap IUserEnumerationPlugin ploneintranet.userprofile. primary_external_user_source /@@sync-users IPropertiesPlugin ploneintranet.userprofile. property_sheet_mapping /@@sync-user-properties
22. dexterity.membrane 1.1.0 SSHA BCRYPT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
23. Documentation docs.ploneintranet.org/ development/ components