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Insert Welcome User message if logged in, or Login link if not

Thread began 12/07/2009 10:52 pm by kimberly300704 | Last modified 12/23/2009 2:14 am by BlackWebDiva | 2858 views | 3 replies |

kimberly300704

Insert Welcome User message if logged in, or Login link if not

I have added User level Authentication to my site. I have a header, which I would like to say "Welcome <username> (logout)", if logged in, and "Login" if not.

When I use the "Show Region" in SA, all I have in the Rules dropdown is the list of users I created for the varying security levels. I no longer have an option for "is logged in to <db>".

How do I adjust the Rules Manager to once again have the "is logged in.." option, if I'm also using User Level Authentication??

Also, how do I get the "Show Region" option to show the Login link, if the user does NOT meet the "is logged in..." rule? I can't figure out what the criteria should be, in the Rules Manager for this, other than the fact that I'm Restricting, rather than Allowing.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

How many rules have you created in the Access Rules Manager?

to recreate the logged in rule, set it to
Allow If
Criteria: Click the lightning bolt and select the user ID session variable
Comparison: Does not equal (Either "<>" or "!=")
Value: Leave this blank, do not enter a value.



to show the welcome message, you will need to store the logged in users name in a session variable. Do this the same way yo stored the Userlevel in a session variable.

Double click the Authenticate user server behavior on the login page. On the third step, click the plus button and select the user name column.

When applying the Security Assist Show region around the login message, chose the Logged into Users rule, when applying the Security Assist Show if around the login button, chose the Not Logged into Users rule.

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BlackWebDiva

Thanks so much for your response, Jason.

Unfortunately, I have a slightly different issue (I think). Now I do see the option in the Rules manager, for "Logged in to users" and "Not Logged in to users".

When I select Show Region, then the rule for logged into users (for the Welcome message), it works.

But when I select the rule for "not logged into users" (for the Login link), it doesn't stick.

For some reason, both regions say, <?php if(WA_Auth_RulePasses("Logged in to users")){ // Begin Show Region ?>

Is there possibly something wrong with my Extension??

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BlackWebDiva

solved

Ok... I found the issue.

I switched from using the "users" table to the "visitors" table, but my Security Assist files didn't make this update.

So I manually edit HelperGroupsRulesPHP.php to use the visitors table and VisitorID and now my Rules Manager is accurate and seems to be working just as I needed.

Thanks again!

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