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[Stefan Winter <address@concealed>]

Hi,

this is now implemented and will be shipped with beta3.

Stefan

Am 12.10.18 um 10:57 schrieb Stefan Winter:
> Hello,
> 
>> In previous version if CAT web interface was possilbe to invite multiple
>> admins of IdP at once.
>>
>> This fails in actual CAT version with message "The invitation email
>> address was malformed, no invitation was sent".
>>
>> Please can you add this functionality back? It was quite usefull.
> 
> In CAT 1.1 you were indeed able to send one(!) invitation token to
> multiple email addresses.
> 
> That was actually rather terrible UX wise. The first guy who reacted on
> the mail got his IdP, but all subsequent ones were told that the
> invitation token is already consumed, while they were very sure that
> they did not do anything with it.
> 
> One way of fixing this UX problem was to restrict the number of
> recipients to one. That was easy :-)
> 
> Another way would be to send a distinct invitation our for every mail
> address, to which everyone can react in their own pace. They will all
> become administrators.
> 
> That can be done, but it is rather complex (institutions don't actually
> get created in the system until "the" (or now the first) admin responds
> to the invitation. But any subsequent ones will now have to be changed
> to refer to an existing IdP because the first responder changed the
> existence state of the IdP).
> 
> I will work on this for beta3, please test that new version specifically
> for this new functionality then.
> 
> We are thinking of releasing beta3 early November.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan Winter
> 
> 


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