Designing Login forms using domcfg.nsf

After enabling session authentication and creating the mapping document, any url with ?login in it will show you the customized login form.

So eg. /db.nsf?open&login or /db.nsf/myagent?open&login will show the login form.

Tom

You really have two questions:

1) How to use a custom login instead of the default

2) How to direct the user to a specific page upon login

Hemantha has answered the first part.  (Note: You usually have a server-wide custom login, and you USUALLY put it in the domcfg.nsf, but it can reside elsewhere.  The key is to specify a "Mapping a login form" on the domcfg.nsf CREATE document menu.)

As to the second part...

This depends on how you have set up profiles.  For example, if there is a separate database containing profiles, and each profile has a readers name field, so that most users will have only one document available to them in the database, you coudl simply do this:

Set the database Anonymous access to No Access
Create a view of all documents in the DB
Specify a URL of /profilesdb.nsf/nameoftheview/$First

When the user clicks on thelink before logging in, Domino will recognize that the ACL prevents the user from getting in, and will force authentication.  The authentication page keeps track of the URL the user was trying to reach, and on successful login, will direct the user to that page.  So, after logging in, the usre is back at /profilesdb.nsf/nameoftheview/$First.  That URL attenpts to open the first document shown in the view, which will always be the user's own profile, since taht is the only document the user can see.

hello guys,

sorry for the little delay..


I had this simple question.  In my R5 databse , there is a button in my form which has the following formulae

@command([toolstunmacro]; "agentname") with the agent named "agentname"

when i open the form on the browser and click the button, it says "form processed" instead of running the agent.

Agent properties are:

name : agentname
shared agent
run all documents in database
use @command


any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Jay.

in your form create a $$Return field.

And the default value should be:
"Your form is processed. Thank you for visiting."

the above message will be displayed. And you can specify where to redirect also.

in the $$Return Field, u can use below options:

Redirecting to:
a view:
"[/" + @ReplaceSubstring( @Subset(@DbName;-1) ; "\\" : " " ; "/" : "+") + "/" + "YourViewname"+ "?OpenView]"  

a form:
"[/" + @ReplaceSubstring( @Subset(@DbName;-1) ; "\\" : " " ; "/" : "+") + "/" + "YourFormname"+ "?Openform]"  

Hope u got it.

yes i got it,,,but how do i know the agent has executed at the background ....
the agent is supposed to create a person document in names.nsf.

this is a part of the code :

<<<< Set db = session.GetDatabase("", "names.nsf")
      Set view = db.GetView("($Users)")
      Set persDoc = view.GetDocumentByKey(doc.UserName(0))
      If (persDoc Is Nothing) Then
            Call doc.Save(True, False)
            Print "[/" & session.CurrentDatabase.FilePath & "/ThankYou?OpenPage]"
            Exit Sub
      Else
            doc.Message = "Person Document for this UserName already exist."
            Exit Sub
            
      End If
      Exit Sub
>>>>>>>

So now the problem is that when user clicks the createprofile button, it should create a profile by the username. Incase username already exists, it should say "person document already exists".


thanks,
J

Set db = session.GetDatabase("", "names.nsf")
     Set view = db.GetView("($Users)")
     Set persDoc = view.GetDocumentByKey(doc.UserName(0))
     If (persDoc Is Nothing) Then
          Call doc.Save(True, False)
          Print "[/" & session.CurrentDatabase.FilePath & "/ThankYou?OpenPage]"
          Exit Sub
     Else
          Print "Person Document for this UserName already exist."
          Exit Sub
         
     End If
     Exit Sub
try the above.
or u can use alert also.