Photo by Pixabay The world is progressing fast, especially when it comes to the tech industry. In the past, JavaScript was child’s play, condemned to lend some semblance of programmability to web pages. Today, it is taking us to space. At the start, WSO2 Identity Server was a fledgling identity solution reposed in your on-prem servers. Today, we are launching it to the cloud. Asgardeo has been a great achievement for our team.

WSO2 Identity Server provides many identity management workflows and password management workflows out of the box, e.g., self-registration, user invitations, password recovery, etc. However, it is not unusual to come across a situation where the workflow capabilities provided out of the box in the product, is not sufficient to fulfill your business requirement.

Photo by Micah Williams on Unsplash This article discusses a new feature which will be released for the public distribution of WSO2 Identity Server 5.12.0. This feature was developed to overcome the following scenario: You can refer to the following diagram for a deeper understanding of the above flow. This scenario can be experienced by anyone. As such, we introduced a new way to handle this scenario (as shown below) for the notification based password recovery flow.