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    Custom Control in Login component

    Is there any way to put in a custom control in a Login component? I would like the user to select what 'Region' they will be working in during their session. I know I can accomplish this by using a dialog that sets it as a session variable as the login redirect page, but I would like to see if I can get it all in the login.

    ---------------------
    Username input
    Password input
    Region dropdown
    Login button
    --------------------

    #2
    Re: Custom Control in Login component

    Yes you can do this. I only tried this now, so perhaps this can be counted as a new discovery.

    Go to the login component and click Layout > Freeform. Click Revert to Default so it paints your default layout. Then insert something like this wherever you want your dropdown to appear:

    <SELECT NAME="region">
    <OPTION VALUE="">Choose a Region...
    <OPTION VALUE="region1">Region 1
    <OPTION VALUE="region2">Region 2
    <OPTION VALUE="region3">Region 3
    </SELECT>

    Save.


    Then on the A5W page that contains your login component, put this code anywhere on the page:

    <%a5

    dim session.region as c
    if eval_valid("submitbutton")
    session.region=region
    end if

    ?"my region :" + session.region
    %>

    The last line is just for testing, remove after tested. When you click submit, the selected region will be stored in session.region.

    My freeform code looks like this:

    HTML Code:
    <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="wtdefaultFormTABLE">
        <tr>
          <td class="wtdefaultColumnTD">User ID</td>
          <td class="wtdefaultDataTD">{Userid}</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td class="wtdefaultColumnTD">Password</td>
          <td class="wtdefaultDataTD">{Password}</td>
    	</tr>
          <td class="wtdefaultColumnTD">Region</td>
          <td class="wtdefaultDataTD">
    <SELECT NAME="region">
    <OPTION VALUE="">Choose a Region...
    <OPTION VALUE="region1">Region 1
    <OPTION VALUE="region2">Region 2
    <OPTION VALUE="region3">Region 3
    </SELECT>
    </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td align="center" colspan="2" class="wtdefaultFieldCaptionTD">{SubmitButton}&nbsp;{ResetButton}</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td colspan="2" class="wtdefaultFieldCaptionTD" >{RememberMe}</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td colspan="2" class="wtdefaultFieldCaptionTD" >{LostPasswordLink}</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    Steve Wood
    See my profile on IADN

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      #3
      Re: Custom Control in Login component

      Sweet, that looks like it will work. How would I pull in the regions from sql? I'm assuming I'd have this code run in the a5w page before the table render takes place.
      Code:
      dim cn as sql::connection
      flag = cn.Open("::Name::jkapp")
      dim sqlCommand as c 
      sqlCommand = "Select CompanyName,CompanyID from gen_regions"
      flag = cn.Execute(sqlCommand)
      dim rs as sql::ResultSet = cn.ResultSet
      Then render out the html. How could I then insert that as my Select/Options?

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        #4
        Re: Custom Control in Login component

        Hi Sparticuz,

        Did you ever figure out how to pull the region from SQL and then show it in drop down box on logon page? I need to do something similar and looks like you might have solved the problem before. Let me know if this can be done. Thanks!

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          #5
          Re: Custom Control in Login component

          pvin2011, Nope, sorry, I never got it working with sql. That wasn't really a necessary function for it to have. It would just have been nice.


          Steve, For some reason I can't get it to work correctly. I've got that code on the index.a5w page but it's not setting the session variable. I can see in Firebug that the region IS being passed to index.a5w after I click Login, but it is inaccessible when my Security Framework forwards to login.a5w.

          Code:
          'on index.a5w (where the login component is)
          'Code for region to be set on login
          if eval_valid("submitbutton")
          	session.regionnum = region
          end if
          Code:
          'login.a5w
          if eval_valid("session.regionnum") then
          	select
          	    case session.regionnum == 1
          			session.__protected__jkapp = "{A5API=MySQL.....'}"
          			session.regionname = "Tampa"
          		case session.regionnum == 2
          			session.__protected__jkapp = "{A5API=MySQL....'}"
          			session.regionname = "Orlando"
          		case else
          			session.__protected__jkapp = "{A5API=MySQL....'}"
          			session.regionname = "Tampa"
          	end select
          else
          	'Session.Regionnum not set?
          	?"Error"
          	end
          end if
          I'm getting Error every single time

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            #6
            Re: Custom Control in Login component

            I'm literally at a stand still due to this problem. I've tried putting the eval_valid("submitbutton") on both the login and the index page, nothing is working! Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated!!!

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              #7
              Re: Custom Control in Login component

              You have to debug. First find out if submittbutton ever evaluates to true. Somethign like this:

              if eval_valid("submitbutton")
              session.regionnum = region
              save_to_file("submitbutton is true" + "|" + region,"c:\test.txt")
              end if

              If it creates a file named test.txt, you know it was true. If it includes the region, you know that has a value.

              If the region is a numeric value, it would be str(region) in the save_to_file() code.
              Steve Wood
              See my profile on IADN

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                #8
                Re: Custom Control in Login component

                test.txt doesn't get created.

                It looks like submitbutton actually evaluates to 'Login'

                This is what firebug shows when I click login:
                POST index.a5w
                COMPONENT_LOGIN_forminfo=aG56XvNpsXHZCzflza4J%252bjQYIH4QyCaPMaBK8s0x2%252b6P00JXq3FD0Mf3%252bHL7AlnJ&Userid=kmcnally&Password=****&region=1&submitbutton=Login

                GET login.a5w

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                  #9
                  Re: Custom Control in Login component

                  You are not looking for the value of submitbutton, just that it exists. It exists when it is clicked. So eval_valid("submitbutton") is true just when the button is clicked.

                  I know exactly what the problem is. You need to move your code. Put it at the very top, above the <DOC TYPE..> or any other HTML, right at the top.
                  Steve Wood
                  See my profile on IADN

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                    #10
                    Re: Custom Control in Login component

                    Yep, that was it! I did some more testing and it looks like the code just needs to be above the xbasic initialization of the component. THANKS!!!!! for all the help :)

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