Properties & Membership

The Properties & Membership page lets you specify the name and description for a MetaDefender Kiosk workflow. It also lets you manage the users or groups assigned to that workflow. To be able to configure workflows with users, the Kiosk system must be part of the domain or be able to authenticate with a remote Active Directory. To be able to configure workflows with groups, the Kiosk system must be able to authenticate with a remote Active Directory.

Each user or group can be assigned to multiple workflows but only one workflow is selected for a session. See Logging In on the User Authentication Screen for more details

1. Assignment from available User/Group

When set up with AD authentication, if the KIOSK can successfully query users and groups, the User/Group available to add section will show users and groups from all configured ADs in their respective User and Group tabs.

Properties & Membership configuration for user page

The admin can also specify a user/group in the search box, the search will narrow down the available data which contain the search pattern. Different from Visitor Management, manage the search accepts sAMAccountName (an attribute in AD server) to search through AD server.

Flow the following steps to assign users/groups to the workflow:

Step 1. Select user(s)/group(s) from the User/Group available to add section by clicking on (+) or Add all buttons on corresponding tab.

Properties & Membership configuration for group page

Step 2. The chosen user(s)/group(s) will be grayed out in the User/Group available to add section and displayed in the User/Group assigned section for review and adjustment.

Step 3. Click on Save to finish.

2. Manually input User/Group assignment

The KIOSK feature enables the manual addition of users or groups along with their identity information.

a. Manually input a user

Step 1. Click on Add User/Group button on the top right of User/Group assigned section

Step 2. On appeared window, check on User option.

Step 3. Enter the user identity information.

Manually input a user

In which:

• Username (required): sAMAccountName of the user
• Domain (required): Domain to which the user belongs
• CN (optional): Common name of the user
• DN (optional): Distinguished Name of the user

Step 4. Click on Add user button.

Step 5. The added user(s) will be displayed in the User/Group assigned section for review and adjustment.

Step 6. Click on Saveto finish.

b. Manually input a group

Step 1. Click on Add User/Group button on the top right of User/Group assigned section.

Step 2. On appeared window, check on Group option.

Step 3. Enter the group identity information.

Manually input a group

In which:

• Distinguished Name (required): the Distinguished Name (DN) of that group. For example: CN=Administrators,CN=Builtin,DC=kiosk,DC=local
• Common name (optional): the Common Name (CN) of that group.

Step 4. Click on Add group button.

Step 5. The added group(s) will be displayed in the User/Group assigned section for review and adjustment.

Step 6. Click on Saveto finish.

3. Remove users/groups from the assigned workflow

Step 1. Click on detele icon to delete specific users/groups on User/Group assigned section or Remove all button to remove all of added ones.

Remove an assigned group

Step 2. Click Save to finish.

4. Important notes

• If there are connection issues with Active Directories, Kiosk might take longer to retrieve users and groups. The timeout for the user/group fetching from each AD is about 1 minute. The more ADs with connection issues, the longer the fetching is.
• When an AD is not available at some time, the user belonging to a workflow is not able to log in Kiosk UI, the admin can check the application log to trouble shoot any login failure in this case.
• When an user is removed from AD, the workflow is not synced up with that removal. The admin must remove that user from the workflow.