Hello Zoom Folks!
Is there a way to have custCreated users join sessions as authenticated?
I have a Zoom app that creates API managed users for all of our platform users. I would like to have those specific users be able to join sessions with their managed profiles.
There are two things I want to achieve here. First, I would like users to be able to show up as themselves in the participants list.
This appears to be possible by getting a zak token for a user and adding it to the join url. Though this appears to work, I can’t find it documented anywhere, and I wouldn’t necessarily count on it being there for any length of time unless it is documented. If this is expected behavior, could you point me to the docs on the subject?
All of that does seem somewhat indirect. What I would really like to do is lock down the sessions so that only invited individuals can attend.
I can sort of do this with registrations, but the downside is that it doesn’t actually appear possible to register users by their account ids. I suppose this is fine, because I have their email address and name, and I can register on behalf of them, but it seems like there should be a more direct way.
At any rate, in the end, outside of a desire to ensure that known entities are connecting to our sessions, I would like for these users to show up as themselves under past participants. Regardless of whether I add the zak token to the join url, or whether I add a user as a participant, they still show up as “Name unavailable” in the dashboard, and they show up as:
{
participants: [
{
id: '<actual host id>',
name: '******',
userEmail: '******'
},
{ id: '', name: '******', userEmail: '******' }
]
}
when I make a request to the past participants api.
We are able to infer who is who for the most part, but I would really like to be able to draw a nice straight line to every user in our system and when they connected.
So to recap, is there a best way to get all participants to be authenticated when they are custCreate users and have them show up in the participants list?
Thanks in advance.