Re: [authenticate]
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1999
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 23673
interpreted = N
texte = >I guess I should be more specific about what I am trying to do. > >My site has a database of bibliographic details about journals, a database >of the articles which comprise the journals and a database of subscribers to >either individual articles or complete journals. > >Each entry in the subscriber database has a username and password,and what's the name of the fields for these values? Username and Password? User and Pass? Somehting else?>the entry >contains data which gives the subscriber access to only those journals and >articles for which they have been granted viewing rights.What kind of 'data'? The sku of each item he has access to?>I had thought that I could use the [authenticate] tag to capture the >username and password,Authenticate looks at the username and password value passed from the browser, but it can never be used anywhere else except inside a showif context, and you also have to remember that unless the showif evaluates to False, the authentication dialog box will come up - every time -- preventing you from doing anything else.>which I could then use in a search context to pull up >list of those journals and articles for which the subscriber has viewing >rights. But when I try to build a template with the [authenticate] tag and a >subsequent search context I get the 'Not authorized' error.The solution could be as simple as changing the field names in the subscriber database, or putting [authenticate] inside a showif context, or using a [search] or a [lookup] instead of [authenticate].Why don't you use the built-in users.db instead of a separate subscriptions dabatase, then use the protect tag in your templates?Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Consultant
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>I guess I should be more specific about what I am trying to do. > >My site has a database of bibliographic details about journals, a database >of the articles which comprise the journals and a database of subscribers to >either individual articles or complete journals. > >Each entry in the subscriber database has a username and password,and what's the name of the fields for these values? Username and Password? User and Pass? Somehting else?>the entry >contains data which gives the subscriber access to only those journals and >articles for which they have been granted viewing rights.What kind of 'data'? The sku of each item he has access to?>I had thought that I could use the
[authenticate] tag to capture the >username and password,Authenticate looks at the username and password value passed from the browser, but it can never be used anywhere else except inside a showif context, and you also have to remember that unless the showif evaluates to False, the authentication dialog box will come up - every time -- preventing you from doing anything else.>which I could then use in a search context to pull up >list of those journals and articles for which the subscriber has viewing >rights. But when I try to build a template with the
[authenticate] tag and a >subsequent search context I get the 'Not authorized' error.The solution could be as simple as changing the field names in the subscriber database, or putting
[authenticate] inside a showif context, or using a
[search] or a
[lookup] instead of
[authenticate].Why don't you use the built-in users.db instead of a separate subscriptions dabatase, then use the protect tag in your templates?Sincerely, Ken Grome WebDNA Consultant
Kenneth Grome
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