* ## What
window.authentik.flow = {
"layout": "{{ flow.layout }}",
+ "background": "{{ flow.background }}",
+ "title": "{{ flow.title }}",
};
Amends the `flow.html` template and `GlobalAuthentik` parser to include new parameters, `background` and `title`, in the flow-specific part of the configuration written to the HTML `<head>` object, and to provide those parameters to client code.
## Why
The `layout` is start-up critical: it tells the Flow interface how the admin wants the Flow page to look, and allows the HTML and CSS to be pre-aligned to that condition. `layout` is determined on a per-Flow bases, not a per-Stage basis; Flows are derived from a tuple of `(Brand, Application?)`, where the opening policy *may* direct a user to a different flow if the user reached authentik via a redirect from a specific application, but will otherwise fall back to the default Flow for the Brand.
The `background` is a field that is required if the `Flow`’s layout is of type `frame_background`; in this case, the part of the viewport not dedicated to the FlowExecutor is reserved for an `<iframe>` that will be filled in with whatever the administrator specifies. Although this gives it the same priority as `layout` (whether it’s provided or undefined) for describing the [chrome](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Chrome) around a challenge, it is currently not provided to the application in the start-up config; it is provided in the `challenge` and renders the IFrame as part of the initial challenge.
This patch fixes that; if `layout` is provided, `background` ought to be as well, even if it’s empty. The execution of a Challenge ought not have any influence over the look and feel of the Flow-defined appearance *around* that Challenge.
I have added `title` as well; with that, all of the current theme-and-appearance related configuration details are placed into `<head>` and can be removed from the FlowExecutor.
Server-side, `background` is currently specified: `background = FileField(blank=True, default="")` which is … interesting since we also appear to store URLs in it. I don’t see anything in the FlowSerializer that would change that from a client’s point of view.
This patch furthers the effort to separate flow execution from flow presentation.
- \[🐰\] The code has been formatted (`make web`)
* web/update: update `secret text` to enable password-like inputs
# What
Adds a flag to ak-secret-text-input so that most secret texts are more password-like than plain-text-with-hidden. plain-text-with-hidden can still be enabled.
# Why
Some customers were uncomfortable with fields named “password” showing input as plain text during object creation.
* web/update: update `secret text` to enable password-like inputs
# What
Adds a flag to ak-secret-text-input so that most secret texts are more password-like than plain-text-with-hidden. plain-text-with-hidden can still be enabled.
# Why
Some customers were uncomfortable with fields named “password” showing input as plain text during object creation.
* web/update: update `ak-secret-text-input` documentation
Enforcing (part of) my “If you touched it and it’s not documented, now you have to document it” rule.
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