password field

Hello

Has anyone tried to make a field in a dct that is like a input type password in html, we have searched all over and can't find anything that we could use.

This means that when ever the user types something in the field, it shouldn't be viewable, only stars should be shown.

best regards,
Mats

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Migrateduser

Have you tried registering an onKeyPress event for that field such that when a key is pressed, it echoes a "*" but stores the actual value in a hidden field?

ISCBorisB

Hello

Has anyone tried to make a field in a dct that is like a input type password in html, we have searched all over and can't find anything that we could use.

This means that when ever the user types something in the field, it shouldn't be viewable, only stars should be shown.

best regards,
Mats

Make a CGI callout for this item and use input type="password" to populate it. If I were you, I would not even show
the item itself on the Form, just "Set Password" button to invoke CGI.

Make sure that the item is hidden, you'll have issues here as well. Disregard some DevNet recommendations
to hide/expose items dynamically using FormAPI. That works only in Edit mode so your password may become visible
in View Mode if you follow this route.

Alternatively, you may store your password as TS Extended Attribute rather than DCR Item. That will have its own
hide/expose issues though

Adam Stoller

Make a CGI callout for this item and use input type="password" to populate it. If I were you, I would not even show
the item itself on the Form, just "Set Password" button to invoke CGI.

Make sure that the item is hidden, you'll have issues here as well. Disregard some DevNet recommendations
to hide/expose items dynamically using FormAPI. That works only in Edit mode so your password may become visible
in View Mode if you follow this route.

Alternatively, you may store your password as TS Extended Attribute rather than DCR Item. That will have its own
hide/expose issues though

All of the above are good ideas - but I have to wonder about the underlying design issue here - why would you want/need to store someone's password in a DCR - which can be viewed in raw form and thus expose the password that way? At the very least you'd want to encode the password in some manner to make it less-trivial for someone to access the information by looking at the raw password - but whatever code you use to un-encrypt it will have to be in the PT, and someone could find it there and use that too.

Which all brings us back to my original query - why are you (duke) trying to store this information in a DCR?

duke

Thanks for all the replyes.

We found a solution that fits our needs.

I can understand the qustion about saving a password in a file, but in our case it was necessary, and it is not a users password, it is part of a connection string to a database.

iw_store

If you don't mind, can you post your solution, so that people can take help of your solution

Migrateduser

So, what did you do???

duke

IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler(fieldName, "onItemChange", passwordNews);

function passwordNews(){
try{
//get password from field
var password = IWDatacapture.getItem(fieldName).getValue();
if(password != null){
//declare and fill stars variable
var stars = "";
for(var i=0; i < password.length; i++){
stars += "*";
}
//set password in hidden field
IWDatacapture.getItem(fieldName.replace ('FIELD', 'HIDDEN')).setValue(password);
IWDatacapture.getItem(fieldName).setValue(stars);
}
}catch(e){}
}

ISCBorisB

Has anyone tried to make a field in a dct that is like a input type password in html

You've noticed by now that your solution does not behave like input "password". Not even close.
"onItemChange" trigger fires when you change focus so your input is visible while you type.

Better phrasing would have been "We found different solution that fits our needs"

kaalraa

I would suggest to open a Feature Request with IWOV.