Redirect to requested page after succesful login

[WindForce]

Hi
I have an app with an autoexec.a5w that runs after a succesful login. In this file, i do redirects to specific pages depending on user's security group.
Now i have a page ( let's call it x.a5w) where if the user tried to access that specific url, i would like to redirect to it ( upon sucessful login ), otherwise run the actual code i have now in autoexec.a5w. How can i accomplish that?

Thanks
Jaime

[WindForce]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

...or to put it simply

if a user goes to x.a5w url ----> have him login then redirect to x.a5w
otherwise--------> have him login then redirect to autoexec.a5w

[WindForce]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

Is there a way while in login component to know what was the original page that called the login component, so i can redirect to it?

[GGandhi]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

on the web security configuration there is a login option that says
ignore return to the page after login
and this gets checked always if someone has component security turned on, like myself.
this may be something you might want to check if you are not using component security.

[Pat Bremkamp]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

That can be tricky since there is only one security settings property sheet. I have a little different situation, but here is what I do.

I am running several instances of Alpha on different ports, for example www.nfnportal.com which is for clients and www.nfnportal.com:9181 for employees.
www.nfnportal.com defaults to mainmenu.a5w and the others go to index.a5w which has the regular login component used for employees.

In the security settings I have the Redirect page after login set to startup.a5w (your autoexec.a5w), so everyone goes there.

For clients, I have a menu with a bunch of buttons, some that do not require login and some that do. I call the buttons A,B,C, etc
Looks like this:Capture1.PNG

The buttons are in a UX on the page and the onClick is "Open an .a5w page..." and for pages that require login, the Page URL is, for example, cust_login.a5w?gt=A, target is Browser Window and Browser window name is _top. Buttons that do not require login just go directly to the non-secured page.

In the head section of cust_login.a5w, I set a Session.GOTO and see if Session.ULINK exists (they are logged in). If so, I skip the login and redirect to the page. If not, they see the login component. Code is
<%a5
dim gt as c DEFAULT "Z"
Session.GOTO = gt
if variable_exists("Session.ULINK") = .F. .or. (variable_exists("Session.ULINK") = .t. .and. Session.ULINK = "") 'not logged in
%>
<%a5
Code to create the cust_login component
%>
<title>
Code for the page
</body></html>
<%a5
else
if Session.GOTO = "A"
vGoTo = "http://www.enefen.com"
elseif Session.GOTO = "B"
vGoTo = "cust_contactus.a5w"
and so on
end if
response.redirect(vGoTo)
end if
%>

After login everyone goes to startup.a5w where I figure out who they are from the Session.ULINK and set up Session.FULLNAME, and other stuff and log the login
For clients, Startup.a5w also contains the
if Session.GOTO = "A"
vGoTo = "http://www.enefen.com"
elseif Session.GOTO = "B"
vGoTo = "cust_contactus.a5w"
and so on
end if
response.redirect(vGoTo)

Yes, it is convoluted, but it gets around the single security properties issue.

[Davidk]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

Is there a way while in login component to know what was the original page that called the login component, so i can redirect to it?

Do your users go directly to x.a5w or do they get there via a link?

It really depends on what your processing scheme is. Are you getting to x.a5w via xbasic, javascript, html, directly? If you're getting to x.a5w directly then there's no really great way to document that you're coming from x.a5w. If you're getting to x.a5w through another process then you could set a variable (client or server side) to help determine where you're coming from. The redirect after login could send you to a central processing page where you could test the variable.

[WindForce]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

The users go directly (i.e they type the link address) to x.a5w ...I have that same issue in many applications. If i could keep security on, but uncheck the "ignore return to page after login" then that would be perfect...

[bea2701]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

Create a <StartMenu> table with a field "StartPage" like mymenu.a5w <parameter etc>
Link the Startmenu to your user table finish with a reponse.redirect <"yourpage">
You can even place A5Template behavior from that field and run workflow proces.

[GGandhi]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

If i could keep security on, but uncheck the "ignore return to page after login" then that would be perfect...

it says component security, do you need component security when they are in a page? I have mine in tabbedui so I have setup component security.

[Steve Wood]

Re: Redirect to requested page after succesful login

I am showing my age, but here is a proven method to do what you want.

First go uncheck Ignore return to page after login.

Add this to the very top of your login.a5w page. Modify the list of allowed pages to suit. If the bookmarked page is in the list of allowed pages, it will redirect back to that page after login. If not, it will go through your intermediate autoexec.a5w page. The request.variables.np is the magic trigger.

Edit: I added "dim request.variables.np" as c to the code.

Edit: Other methods like determining what page you came from do not work because if you hit a secure page and are redirected to the Login page, there is NO information about where you came from. Because of this you also cannot use any method in the intermediate autoexec.a5w page because again, you will have no information about what page they hit initially before being redirected to the login.

<%a5

allowed_pages = <<%txt%
secure_page.a5w
secure_page1.a5w
secure_page2.a5w
secure_page3.a5w
%txt%

dim request.variables.np as c
local_np = a5_split_url(request.variables.np,.t.).page

dim result as l = .f.
result = is_one_of(local_np,allowed_pages)
if result <> .t.
request.variables.np = "" '== will cause to go to the intermediate page
end if

%>