We would like to add content to the now blank page next to the user/pw boxes. I can get content to show up as the front page once the user has logged in, but how do we add content to be viewed by anonymous users only during the login process?
Thank you!
Follow these steps:
Create a block and only check the 'anonymous' checkbox in the Role Specific Visibility Settings.
Set the Page Specific Visibility Settings to display the block on <front> for the front page, user for the login page, or the urls for any other pages on which you may want it to display.
Finally, save the block and place it in the region of your choice.
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The usual procedure for creating an announcement page isn't working. I go to create page, and get the usual page asking me to enter a name for my page and select a template. The problem is that the drop down box to select the template for the page does not include 'announcement page'.
What's going on? Is this a result of using a sample site template? If it is a problem with this particular site template, is there a fix?
The option is present on my other sites.
This is basically two question? First i was wonder how to change the page liferay redirects when a user tries to access a page that has Power User view permissions. Liferay by default points to localhost:web/guest/home where they have their login page. On my application i have a different login in page and i want to redirect to the following page. I was browsing the web and found out that by setting auth.login.site.url=/whereiwontittopoint should actualy redirect me there. However it does not. I'm using Liferay 6.0.6 Community Editions. Has anyone done this? Is this the right way or this need to be done with a hook?
My other question is the following. I want to have a custom role on some pages. And i want when a user does not have that specfic role to be redirect to a totaly different page not the default login. I'm fairly sure this can be done by using the hook on some service but for some reason i can not identify this service.
EDIT
Ok for the first question i solved the issues. For the second question the answers i got here were not what i was looking for probably because i didn't post the question correctly. This is a full scenario of what i have done and what i need to do:
First of all i changed the /web/guest path that's on every liferay page to web/somthing/ this might not play a crucial role but the problems(some of the problems) started when that happend. THe over all idea is the following. I'm using spring mvc to create the application. I have created a backend to my application from where the admin can create pages for other users to see(This is not done by going to the control panel of liferay and adding a page but through the logic of the application). Once a page is created depending on some logic i create a role for that certain page(customer role also through code not the liferay admin). Some of the users are given this role if the satisfy some criteria and some are not. Here my problem arises, once a user that is loged in to my application tries to access a page (by inputting a direct URL in the browser to the page) that requres the view permision of the role i create for that page and the user does not have the appropriate role he gets redirect to lets say localhost/web/(username)/home a personal page and for some reason on that page by default from liferay he is able to view personal data(user name) of all other users of the application. My question is how through code to handle the redirection that happens of the above scenario.
I have tried on one attempt to actualy hook the servlet.service.events.pre action and before the user access that page to check if he has the appropriate permisions and actualy change his request. So far i have some issues but i can resolve them but this approach is not what i not rly what i am looking for because this action is executed before every single request on the application( and the page handling is just small part of that application) which means i will have a lot of code executing for no reason. I was wondering if there are any ways to add where the exception will redirect when i create the role? If not what action should i hook that will help me solve this scenario but with out the unneeded extrea trafic that i am creating with hooking servlet.service.events.pre action?
For the second stuff a bit hacky way could be as follows
1) Define set of roles against which you want to check in portal-ext.properties. You can add some property like my.super.secret.roles=rolename1,rolename2
2) Add a property for a redirect page url in portal-ext.properties so that you can redirect user there.
3)Add a custom attribute for Layout named checkForSecretRoles which has to be boolean and visible on Page. This will show you a checkbox in Manage page for each page, so that an admin can easily check or uncheck the value
4)Add a condition in your theme (portal_normal.vm) to check if the page has a check for secret role and then check the users role falls in any of the roles defined in portal-ext.properties. If yes then issue a redirect to the page specified by your custom redirect page url property
For your first question, it should work -
auth.forward.last.paths=/sign-in
sign-in would be your page name
The answer for your second question is, you have to create a Hook extending Action and made the below entry in your portal-ext.properties.
login.events.post=com.liferay.portal.events.LoginPostAction,com.liferay.portal.events.CustomLandingPageAction
There is a lot of information you can found on forum about how to use this property.
for 1. set default.landing.page.path=/whereiwontittopoint in portal.properties, see Liferay Login page redirect
for 2. create a hook, set servlet.service.events.post=com.my.action.MyAction and impliment this action, at this point you can redirect user to another page.
I'm trying to find a clean way so that the login and logout pages for my liferay portal aren't shown in my menu. For the login page I guess I could move the user to the private pages section but I have no clue how I can make the logout landing page not visible. And preferably the logout page would only be navigable to when you're effectively logged out so users can't accidentally go to it when they've got the url cached in their browser.
Any input would be appreciated.
Regarding hiding the landing pages: Just create them and check "hidden" in "Manage Page" for that page. This will make the page accessible according to the permissions, but hide it in the navigation - e.g. if you know the page's name, you can go there - just as you requested.
If you display the currently logged in user on the logout landing page (e.g. through the "Sign In" portlet, you don't need to display a message like "you've been logged out", but display the current state of the user's session.
Of course you're free to not use the Sign-In opportunity on that page, in this case you'll have to display the current session state in a different portlet. It could be as simple as a templated WebContent portlet, accessing the currently logged in user.
Edit: If you set default.logout.page.path=/web/guest/logout and auth.forward.by.last.path=true but you're still not redirected on logout, chances are that changes made through the UI override your portal-ext.properties. If you've edited "Settings" in ControlPanel, this is most likely the case. You can set these values there, on the first page in settings.
As noted in your comment: You cannot make the first page hidden. This shouldn't be a problem: Just make any other page hidden. Even if you don't have more public content than this, you can have at least a public page stating that you need to login. Make this the first, so the logout page can be either a child page of this or a new toplevel page - but most importantly: It can be hidden.
I am new on SharePoint 2010 and trying to make basic web sites.
First, created a new site. Using domain authantication. I've done to hide Site Actions tab. Surrounded the tags with
<SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl ID = "spstcSiteActions" runat = "server" PermissionsString = "ManageWeb">
When you do this, end-user cant see Site Actions ribbon, but cant see Sign In link too :)
I want to make Site Actions invisible, but Sign In link visible. When the user clicks then link, he can see Site Actions ribbon if authentication is success. My question is How to hide Site Actions tab, but show Sign In link in same tab or at different place.
I've not tried this on SharePoint 2010 but might know a workaround. You could try putting a link on your masterpage that points to /_layouts/authenticate.aspx . Once the user clicks on the url, they will be authenticated and brought back. Then the trimmed control can show the site actions menu depending on permissions.
You'll need a trimmed control around the login link in order to hide it when the user is authenticated.
You might want to look into what CustomActions are available to you. I've used custom actions in SP2007 to add items to the site actions menu. You might be able to leverage something something similar to hide an item.
Here's a related article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418728(office.12).aspx
I am using MOSS with ADS. I want to display Terms of Use page before the user can login into SharePoint with two button i.e. "Accept","Decline". If user select "Accept" he will be directed to sharepoint site, if not to our companies intranet front page. This will be applicable for the current session. ie. If the user has signed off, then it should prompt the terms of use again when user hits the MOSS site but once accepted user should not get this page again until he/she signs off.
Please advise.
Thank you
You can follow one of the Approach below based on your requirement & Flexibility.
If you have AD Configured with the FBA, Make a copy of Login.aspx and save it as MyLogin.aspx & Edit the Login Control and insert your Terms & Conditions there,keep in a check box AND enable the login button only if I agree is checked.
Next is to have a control that is deployed to the Master Page, this control will not have a UI but it will check in the session to see if the user has agreed the Terms and condition if yes it will redirect to the welcome page or the page user has requested else will navigate him to the Terms page until accepts.On Accept flag that information in session.
If you are using SharePoint 2010 you could use the Dialog framework to show a popup & get this done.
You could create a custom page in /_layouts which has your terms and conditions, along with the buttons for accept/decline.
Hitting the accept button will create a cookie for keeping track of whether or not the user has accepted the conditions for the current session.
Then, you could create a HttpModule which intercepts all requests to the SharePoint site. If the cookie is present, do nothing (ie let the user access the requested page), otherwise redirect the browser to the custom accept/decline page.
You should be able to do this fairly easily. If you dont care about them accepting or denying it, then just use this redirect module http://httpcode.s3.amazonaws.com/httpcode.Redirect.wsp to redirect them once to the page. You can tell this module to do it once. If you need to verify that they accept/decline, you will need to add all the people to a new group, and then on accepting, remove them from that group. That way they will always be directed to the new page.
Hope this helps