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People picker

People Picker is a federated white pages that is implemented as a web-service. It gives you the ability to search for individuals anywhere in your federation. You only need to log in once and you can search all the institutions for the person you are looking for.

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demo servers

aaf1 ppk
aaf2 (idp-pp)

the dev's corner

* Code tour
* Tester resources
* Invitation Client
* Query Syntax 
* Access Restrictions Discussion
* Modifying a wsdl file

All you need to know, the essentials
latest news

Current version:  version name / stage (alpha beta ..etc) and  status (maybe?) s

Features:

  • Search for a user in a whole federation, for approximate or exact matches.
  • Search is secured: data encrypted,enforced shibboleth release .
  • Search results are incrementally returned.
  • Search progress is indicated as search proceeds.

Architecture:People Picker is implemented in 3 parts

  • idp-pp: an idp component that exposes user search as a web-service
  • fed-pp: a federated white pages component that search on all idp-pps. It will then return the list of results.
  • clients: the programs (either web sites or applications) that users of the search functionality actually use. These pass the requests on to fed-pp to do all the hard work. 

Information flow:It is useful to see how information flows within people picker

  1. the user types a query into a pp client
  2. The client sends the query to fed-pp
  3. fed-pp sends the query to each idp-pp
  4. each idp-pp responds with results
  5. when all results are back fed-pp responds to pp client (actually, people picker allows intermediate results and progress to be displayed as well).
  6. pp client then displays results for the user

 
Technical background: With what other software/machines it interacts?
How?

What are its configuration files?

-        location

-        content

-        explanations (what is modified or what to look for)

-        log files if they exist, their location and what they track. 

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General

  • user guide
  • screenshots 
  • ppt
  • Q&A

Technical

  •  installation guide
  • Configuration
internal doc

Conception:

  • functional requirements
  •  technical requirements
  • specification

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  • planned meeting 




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