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Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

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    Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

    I have a simple time keeping web app I developed for my business use (hosted by my server) and its been working fine for a couple of years now. I recently migrated this app to Alpha Cloud and connected to a Maria DB. After cleaning up some data path / references etc it again works with one exception ... the user ID variable (ulink) from web security settings and which is associated with the logged in user will no longer populate into the records table. The setup for this is that a hidden field in the grid requires the initial value to be =session.ulink_ID. Now whenever any user enters a time record, their ID is always recorded as 0. I've checked the database tables and all the web security tables are there and complete. They obviously are able to be referenced otherwise you wouldn't be able to log in to the app. Any ideas what is going wrong and how to rectify?
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    Re: Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

    Hi Dirk,

    I know they have been trying to deprecate ulink for some time. Check the following post as it relates to IIS. Alpha Cloud is fully based on IIS.

    https://www.alphasoftware.com/alphaf...?t-111179.html

    We have several apps now on the Alpha cloud which depend on passing user data into components for filtering purposes (as well as populating data) and it works fine. We do not, nor have we ever used ulink.

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      #3
      Re: Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

      Thank you for your response. I will look into other means then. Cheers

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        Re: Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

        I have a companion Users table to hold all of my users detailed information. I link that table to security based on their userid (email address). My users table has a 32 character GUID and I put that value into a session variable when they login to be able to refer back to their user record at any time.
        Steve Wood
        See my profile on IADN

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          #5
          Re: Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

          Yep Steve, that makes total sense.

          As an aside: I like the following in your tag line: "There is no Cloud. It's just someone else's computer."

          For years I've tried to get my father to understand....without much success. :)

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            Re: Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

            "There is no Cloud. It's just someone else's computer." I have a nerd t-shirt that says that.
            Steve Wood
            See my profile on IADN

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              Re: Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

              Thanks Steve, I'll give that a try. Out of interest why do you set up a separate users table when there is one automatically created by Web Security? Can that not be refered?

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                Re: Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

                Hi Dirk, you have an additional table to that you can define additional information and not have to mess with the default security tables. As an example, let's say you wanted to have a table of "clients" and "vendors" and you wanted their registration to be different (requiring different fields).

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                  Re: Migration to Alpha Cloud Issue

                  Sean, understand. My needs are simple, I looked at the Web Security table contents and noticed that the ulink field was there and populated and was considering using this data via a SQL Lookup because my app was originally configured to use ulink (which no longer get carried through as a session variable in the new server as I've been advised at the beginning of this thread). Anyway, I think I'll move with the times and try Steve's GUID suggestion as a session variable.

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