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What's New in Identity Director 2021.2

Highlighted Features

In Identity Director 2021.2, we have introduced a feature preview for Access Reviews, in the form of an interactive mock-up in the Web Portal.

In the Active tab of the My Access Reviews section, you will find a prepopulated list of actions waiting to be reviewed. To help you prioritize the items, you can see both the time left until completion and the review progress for each of them.

Click on an item to review the qualifications of the people on the list. You can either Authorize or Revoke access for individual users.

Note that this is a feature preview with made-up data and any actions taken on the page will have no impact on your environment. Refreshing the page will reset the My Access Reviews section.

To disable the section, go the Web Portal installation folder, open the web.config file, and change the value to 1 in the following line: <add key="disableAccessReview" value="0" />.

To improve the security of your environment, starting with Identity Director 2021.2, you can enable multifactor authentication in your environment, from Setup > Multifactor Authentication.

Once the feature is enabled, all users will have to enroll and will be prompted to set up an authenticator during their next log in. From the same page, you can unenroll people separately, or reset enrollments for everyone in your environment.

Identity Director now has a reporting function, allowing for changes to be tracked and logged into a dedicated datastore.

In the Setup and Sync Tool, you will find the newly-added Reporting tab, where you can enable the feature and also choose between connecting to an existing Datastore or creating a new one. You can also modify settings for Reporting from the Management Portal, at Setup >Datastore> Reporting.

Announcements

If you have configured an encryption key in your environment, when upgrading to Identity Director 2021.2, you must resubmit the encryption key. To do so, you can either provide it during the upgrade process, or follow the instructions in the Best Practices Guide to add the key after completing the upgrade.
This applies to both the Management Portal and to the Transaction Engine.

Starting with Identity Director 2021.2, you can only use people attributes of type text as delivery triggers. The option has been removed for attributes of type list and of type table.

Enhancements and Improvements

In the Management Portal , you can now edit your comments on the Versions tab of your service.

Certain workflow actions now have the option to send email notifications to approvers. You can set the time interval at which these reminders are sent out, and they will continue until the action is either approved, canceled, or when it expires.

For this release, we have added more features to the Provide Information workflow action:

  • Auto pop-up window in the Web Portal
    Configure the Provide Information window to pop up in the Web Portal, when users have requested a service containing a Provide Information workflow action.

  • User input validation
    For attributes of the types Text, Date, and DateTime, you can configure user input validation, which will allow you to make sure users provide correctly formatted information, both in the Management Portal and in the Web Portal.

  • Dynamic attributes
    Use dynamic attributes to provide immediate feedback to your users' input, on the same Provide Information workflow action page. This option is only available for attributes of type Text, Date, DateTime, and Organization.

  • Reusable attributes
    You can optionally make your attributes reusable, allowing them to be used multiple times throughout the same Provide Information workflow action. Users can change the value of these attributes as they are going through the pages, and only the last value of the attribute is committed at the end of the workflow action.

In the Setup and Sync Tool, you can now add the Organization Unit filter in the People Data Source.

Previous versions of Identity Director 2021.1

For the release notes of previous versions, please refer to the Previous Versions page.