Logout Customisation

Hi All,

I have a requirement when a user click on the logout button in webtop, it should ask for a confirmation and if the confirmation is yes then it should logout the user and the browser should navigates to the login screen. I have achieved this but one problem which I am facing is that when the user click on the back button after the user is in the login page after logoff, he can see the main page which should not be the case. I double check with default webtop it shows the same behaviour but one interesting thing which I notice is that when I tried with DA , I cant see such behaviour(once the user logoff he cant go back to the main page ).So my question is that --

1) What is the difference between the logoff component of DA and Webtop?

One more thing I want is that in logoff_component.xml where are two params

</params>

How to use this and their importance, how to pass the value for these two params.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Rintu

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gcampos

Hi,

In my Webtop (6.5 SP1 in Oracle App Server 10g) I couldn't come back to the login screen after logout and clicking on the "Back" button, it behave the same way as Documentum Administrator did.

From "Web Development Kit and Webtop 6.6 Reference Guide":

logoff_component.xml

afterLogoff (Optional): Accepts as a value the following JavaScript functions on the Window object: closeWindow | forward

forwardUrl (Optional): URL to which to forward the browser

Rintu_CTS

Hi Gustavo,

Thanks for your quick reply. Actually I have made some customisation to bring the page from logoff screen to login screen.

From the guide I can see that

afterLogoff (Optional): Accepts as a value the following JavaScript functions on the Window object: closeWindow | forward

forwardUrl (Optional): URL to which to forward the browser

but there it is not mention how to pass the value for the above two parameters. Can u please let me know how to pass the value for the two parameters.

Thanks

Rintu

gcampos

Hi Rintu,

Since you have customized Webtop's logoff, you should check if it is your customization who have changed the default behavior of the "Back" button.

The parameters must be passed on the component who calls the logoff component, in this case is the titlebar component, where the 'Logout' button is located.

I have looked in here and found that titlebar.jsp calls the 'logout' action, defined in /webtop/config/session_actions.xml, which contains the location of the component or page to be displayed after the logoff.

I haven't tested it here but as I understand you just have to change the action definition to redirect to whatever page you want.

Like this:

<desc>

Extends the WDK logout action and sets the value of the homeurl

attribute to the component logoff.

</desc>

<homeurl>put in here the desired address</homeurl>

</execution>

</action>

Generally we pass the parameters in the component's call on the JSP or Java class, but in this case the parameter is hardcoded in the action.

Don't forget to change the action as recommended by EMC, which is extending the original action in a new XML.

Regards

Rintu_CTS

Hi Gustavo,

Thank you for your reply,

I have tried the below option, from the session_actions.xml I am calling the login component after logout.

<desc>

Extends the WDK logout action and sets the value of the homeurl

attribute to the component logoff.

</desc>

<homeurl>/component/login</homeurl>

</execution>

</action>

But the issue which I am facing is that when I click on the back button it move to the main page which should not be the case because the session is already expires. I have to understand how documentum refresh the pages after logout so that it does not return to the main page.

The browser which I am using is mozilla 3.6.

Thanks once again.

Regards

gcampos

Rintu,

you are correct, I did the same customization here to test and the session didn't expired. Probably the logoff component is responsible for expiring the session or something else.

In this case I think that you must customize the LogoutAction java class to be sure that the parameters are passed to the logoff component and it redirects you to the login page.

I haven't found any other place where we could change the logout call to logoff component and pass the parameters, the call is in the Java class.

Regards

Rintu_CTS

Hi Gustova,

I can see some difference when we logout from DA and webtop. When we logout from DA and click on the back button the page gets re-loaded but in case of webtop the page does n't get reloaded it simply move to the earlier page. I have compared most the files(logout and main) of DA and Webtop but it is of no use because the files are same. I am not able to find where they have changed such setting in DA.

Thanks and Regards

Rintu