Authentication question

[Griff]

We have (will have) a business-2-business eCommerce system. This means that
the end users are grouped together by the companies that employ them.

As part of the authentication screen, I'd like the following 3 fields to be
completed as part of the log-on process:

1 - Your company name
2 - Your user name
3 - Your user password

Is it trivial to adapt the Authentication screens that ship with the new
ASP.NET 2.0 Membership & Role Management framework? If so....how?

Thanks

Griff

 

[Guest]

No, You can modify the Login control. What you need to do is -
Click on the Control arrow where it displays the Login Tasks.
Select Convert to Template.
Go in source. Now you have the complete table HTML syntax for the Login
control.
Now you can make the necessary changes.

Ameet Phadnis
e Tek Global Inc.

 

[clintonG]

Yes, it is trivial when using the login control that comes out of the box.
First let the Membership provider authenticate the user name and password
which is done transparently and then use the currently logged in user to
look up their company name in the Profile.

The hardest part is actually templating a login control and learning the
code needed to authenticate user name and password which has to be written
manually when templating these "new and improved" 2.0 controls but note:
templating is the only way to request the company name on the same login
form.

The easiest but clumsy way is to use the login control that comes out of the
box and then use AJAX on the same page to display a textbox used to request
and capture the company name that is stored in the Profile. It is easy to
learn to log somebody out if not authenticated in this context.

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