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Displaying a logged in users name on all backend homepage.

Thread began 10/29/2009 9:19 am by jenkolaka19379118 | Last modified 11/06/2009 9:51 am by Jason Byrnes | 3134 views | 9 replies |

jenkolaka19379118

Displaying a logged in users name on all backend homepage.

Hello,

Ok I have figured out how to display a users name on a page.

e.g welcome: {session.sessionname}

I was able to do this by creating the session on the login page, server behaviour, "authenticate user". I went to step 3/3 and added 2 sessions, one for firstname column and another for lastname column. Then I went to my admin homepage and bind the sessions to the page. So I get e.g.

Welcome John Doe.

What I need help on is I need to display the users userLevel next to the name.

e.g. Welcome John Doe {session.userLeveltextdescription}

The problem is if I use the session variable in my parent table I will get the userlevel ID so it will display an integer. How would I get the session to display the text value of the userlevel ID according to the logged in user?

ps I have a bad feeling this has something to do with parameters, which I have no clue how to use, so I would be grateful if this can be explained indepth including all the neccessary recordsets and server behaviours I would need for the page. I have linked the login redirect page to this admin homepage so in addition I just need to know all the php the admin homepage needs to function.

Many Thanks in advance

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

On the admin home page create a recordset that queries the UserLevel table. using simple view, set the filtering options to use the UserLevelID column equal to, In the variable type Dropdown list, select session variable, then type the name of the session variable crated on login that contains the UserLevelID.

next, use the Set Session Value server behavior.


In the Server Behaviors list, click the plus button and select WA Cookies -> Set Session Value. Set the trigger to the recordset not being empty. set the name to something that makes sense for you. for the value, click the lightning bolt and select the UserLevelName column from the recordset.

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Douglas Fox

'Bind' Session Variable

More Newbie questions!!! Any help is really appreciated. :) This is basically a problem I need to solve too.

I can see how you created the session variables, but how do you 'bind' them to the user pages?

Really what I would love to do is put the code in the template so that all my pages will get the same message (i.e. "Welcome John Doe"). I just can't figure out how to reference the session variable within the HTML section of the page.

Also, how would I go about hiding the "Welcome John Doe" if the user wasn't logged in? Am I able to pick up on session variables in the CSS file somehow?????

Doug Fox
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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

The session variables are available on the Bindings panel. To open the bindings panel, go to Window Bindings.

In the bindings panel, expand the session collection, select the binding you want and dragt it to the page where you want it to display.

To hide the binding if the user is not loged in, select the code in design view, then on the server behaviors panel, click the plus button and select SecurityAssist -> Show Region. form the list of rules select the Logged in rule so the binding will only show if the user is logged in.

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Douglas Fox

can it be done on Dreamweaver templates?

Is it possible to put the binding and the "Show Region" within a Dreamweaver template?

Or do I have to add an editable region (to locate it properly on each page) and go to each page and perform these steps?

Thanks for your help.

Doug

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Douglas Fox

Completed the template change

Sorry... I answered my own question. I was able to put the code in using SA in a test page and transfer that code to the template. Now it seems to be working well. Thanks.

Doug

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jenkolaka19379118

Hi Jason,

Am I supposed to bind the UserLevelName to the page from the recordset or the newly created session variable created using cookies toolkit? I couldn't get is to work when I binded the newly created session variable.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

The recordset to look up the UserLevelName should be on the page that the login page redirects to.


The set session value behvavior is on the same page, make sure it is after the recordset.


you xcan then use the session variable to display the UserLevelName on any page.

If you are still having trouble, send a copy of the login page and the page you have the recordset on.

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jenkolaka19379118

Thanks so much Jason,

The problem was exactly as you described. The set session behaviour was above the recordset, causing the session not to display on the page. Once I moved the recordset code above the session code, it works perfectly.

Many Thanks Again

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Great, glad to hear it's working.

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