Getting Started Guide
SecurityAssist
All WebAssist products receive professional, top-of-the-line support from a number of resources. SecurityAssist includes a full online help system, available directly from within Dreamweaver. Additional resources are available below:
This Getting Started Guide provides basic instructions for using SecurityAssist. Also available are the Getting Started Guides for any Suites that contain this extension.
How Tos
How To documents are instructions, steps and details to help you achieve a specific objective using SecurityAssist.
How to create an Administrative back-end (PDF)
How to apply Register/Login functionality to your checkout page
Solution Recipes
Solution Recipes are a series of interactive tutorials that describe how to get the most out of your WebAssist products.
Introduction to SecurityAssist
Introduction (Interactive Tutorial)
Running the wizard (Interactive Tutorial)
Setting up Log In (Interactive Tutorial)
Modifying Registration (Interactive Tutorial)
Changing the Update Profile (Interactive Tutorial)
Creating a New Password page (Interactive Tutorial)
Updating Send Password (Interactive Tutorial)
User Level Authentication
Overview (Interactive Tutorial)
Configuring your database (Interactive Tutorial)
Defining User Level Access (Interactive Tutorial)
Apply Access Rules (Interactive Tutorial)
Testing Your Access Rules (Interactive Tutorial)
Using the Show Region Server Behavior (Interactive Tutorial)
Testing the Show Region Server Behavior (Interactive Tutorial)
Frequently Asked Questions
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This FAQ helps answer some of the most common post sales questions regarding SecurityAssist. Each answer appears below its corresponding question.
What do I need to do in order to use SecurityAssist?
To use SecurityAssist you will need to have the following in place:
- A site defined in Dreamweaver that includes the Testing Server settings.In the Testing Server section, you must specify the Server model and Access.
- Have a page open in Dreamweaver that has been saved within your defined site and matches the server model you specified.
- You must have a connection defined to a database. SecurityAssist authenticates based on information in your database, requiring a connection to be configured before you can use the tool.
Once you have done these things you will be able to use the SecurityAssist wizard in your site.
How do I make use of the random password feature of SecurityAssist?
From the bindings tab, choose Add > SecurityAssist > Random Password. This will add the binding to your list of available bindings. To apply this binding, drag and drop it onto your page. Once dragged to your page, the configuration screen will appear where you can set the parameters for the random password that is created.
How do I restrict access to a particular page in my site?
Once you have used the SecurityAssist wizard to create the login and other pages, you can limit access to pages using the Access Rules Manager and Access Page Manager.
Select Modify from the Dreamweaver menu, and then choose SecurityAssist. Create the access rules you desire with the Access Rules Manager. Then, restrict access to particular pages using the Access Page Manager. For more detailed steps review the User Authentication Solution Recipe.
Can I set session variables with user's values from when they login?
In the SecurityAssist Authenticate User server behavior you can configure session variables to be set on the final step. In this final step of the server behavior you can add a session variable for any columns in your users table. This can be very useful if you want to store the username, or email address in a session variable, then you can show these details on any page you want without having to create a new Recordset on these pages.
Do I have to use the login form created by SecurityAssist?
If you use the SecurityAssist wizard the login page along with the server behavior will be created for you.
If you want to use your own login form on a page that was not created by SecurityAssist, you can do so by applying the Authenticate User server behavior from the Server behaviors panel.Related Articles and Tutorials
Roadmaps
Roadmaps that are related to a specific product are included in this section of the product's support page.
Click here to learn more about Roadmaps or to view all Roadmaps.
Setting up your Dynamic Sites (PHP)
Setting up a PHP Connection (Interactive Tutorial)
Defining a Recordset (Interactive Tutorial)
Applying a Repeat Region (Interactive Tutorial)
Establishing Recordset Navigation (Interactive Tutorial)
Setting up your Dynamic Sites (ASP)
Setting up a Dynamic site (Interactive Tutorial)
Declaring an ODBC Data Source (Interactive Tutorial)
Creating an ASP Connection (Interactive Tutorial)
Defining a Recordset (Interactive Tutorial)
Applying a Repeat Region (Interactive Tutorial)
Establishing Recordset Navigation (Interactive Tutorial)
Setting up your Dynamic Sites (Coldfusion)
Declaring an ODBC Data Source (Interactive Tutorial)
Defining a ColdFusion Connection (Interactive Tutorial)
Defining a Recordset (Interactive Tutorial)
Applying a Repeat Region (Interactive Tutorial)
Establishing Recordset Navigation (Interactive Tutorial)
General
General TechNotes
Archived Documentation
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