Luminus Database Access - database

I have followed most of the tutorials on the luminusweb.net website, setting up a database system using the +h2 new app. What I have currently mirrors the guestbook setup like the tutorial shows. I am now wondering how I can access specific entries into the migrations up table. More specifically, I am trying to have restricted access to webpages (a login system) based on the entries inside of the table.

The migration file purpose is to create the tables in your database. To access those tables you will have to write queries in the file located here: your_project > resources > sql > queries.sql
Here you should write queries, there are a few examples on the Luminus website. When you see parameters with semicolumns, it means that you have to pass a map with those parameters when you call these queries in your program. Ex: if you have this query:
-- name: accounts_for_user
-- retrieve all accounts a user has access to and the associated rights
SELECT account_name, admin
FROM accounts_users
WHERE email = :email;
The call:
(db/accounts_for_user {:email "laurent#test.com"})
will return a lazy sequence like this:
[{"account_name":"account1","admin":false},
{"account_name":"account2","admin":true},
{"account_name":"account2","admin":true}]
Then if you want to restrict the access to a specific page based on what's in your database, there are a few options. The Buddy auth library offers a few options, the easiest to use is the session one. First, when a user enters a correct password, you inject their identifier in :session :identity in any request. For instance
(-> (redirect "/accounts-list")
(assoc :session {:identity "user#test.com"}))
The identity parameter will be in every request until the session dies (30 minutes by default) or you overwrite it. In your pages, you can test buddy.auth/authenticated? on the requests, and redirect to an error page or whatever you like if it returns false. I am currently writing a tutorial for webapps using Luminus, I'll update this answer when it's available.

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Best way to implement one-time feature after signup?

Note: This is likely a duplicate question but I couldn't search for a solution/suggestion for my use case, so if anyone can re-direct me, that would be appreciated.
Problem: I have a NextJS application that runs on Prisma ORM and MySQL database. I am using NextAuth for OAuth authentication for sign up and log in.
So far the application works just fine but I want to check whether a user is logging in for the first time and redirect them to a set up page whether they would input personal details in order to populate a table on the database, so that the app can form a dynamic page based on their newly added information.
On the database, there are the user table (populated by NextAuth immediately at login) and the profile table.
Under NextAuth, the user table is populated automatically with the account's user name and email etc. However, that is not a unique entry and NextJS getStaticPath requires a unique entry to generate a dynamic page. That's why I have created the profile table to allow users to add their custom username where the dynamic URL will be generated (e.g. localhost:3000/u/[slug])
Here's my question - I want to check that the user is first time logging in and send a form for them to fill out the necessary information to input data onto the profile table, otherwise they would go straight to their profile homepage. What is the best way to check that and to redirect them to that form page?
Do I do it at server side with getServerSideProps by checking that the id from user table is missing from the profile table and do a redirect? Or is there some method that's customarily used to implement this "initial set-up" procedure?

What is the most suitable way to save user's actions in react webpage (SPA)?

I'm building a SPA site in React (using redux).
To my site, any user can connect through Google or Facebook.
Each user who logs in to the site receives a personal user_id.
For each user, the system needs to keep a history of documents created by this same user (like the recent docs in Word).
I need to create functionality that whenever the user is logged in he will be able to see a history of the five documents he has created/updated.
In addition, the latest documents will load even after disconnecting and reconnecting to the system.
To load the history into the system I am thinking of using a dedicated index in ElasticSearch.
My question is which way would be suitable the most to use when the user is already logged in and creates several documents one after the other -
Should I need to save everything within the index in ES or is there a smart way to save and update the information locally without producing a lot of calls to DB?
I want that in the end there will be only 2 DB calls that are made in total - one call to load the information on login and one call to update the information when the user logs out. Any other create and update docs will save locally on the client side until leaving the site.

Is this possible to create a private report filtering in Data Studio embeded report

I created a report in DataStudio and embedded it on my website. I activated the option "anyone with the link can view" so this report will be visible to my website users.
But I need to show my website users different data depending on their user ids and more important I don't want users would be able to see other users' data so if I used URL filtering users would be able to breach and search another user id to see his data.
Does anyone have a solution for this scenario?
In Google documentation I saw an option to limit the report to users in my domain, I assume this will solve this issue, but I don't find how to restrict other domains.
Users are logged onto Google
If users of your website are already logged onto Google, use the Filter by email address guide from Data Studio help center. This requires you to setup FILTER BY EMAIL and then have a field in your data can be directly used as an email filter.
Users are not logged on to Google
If you want a solution where the users don't have to be logged onto Google, you will need to:
Create a Community Connector to pass the filtered data to your users. The connector should accept a short lived token as part of the config.
Create a dashboard with your connector and pass unique short-lived tokens for each user.
You should have an endpoint that returns the current user's data based on the token provided. Alternatively, the endpoint can return only the user's identify and you can query a secondary data source with a service account filtering for the user's identity.
Your connector should call your endpoint to fetch data only for the user/for the user's identity.
This official guide demonstrates how to implement this in more details.
Disclaimer: I work in the Data Studio team and wrote the above guide.
First option is to add extra 2 fields to your data source.
User_ID
Password
For example:
Data, User_ID, Password
$10,Daniel,123
$20,Alex,456
In your dashboard, you need to create two parameters:
User_ID_Parameter
Password_Parameter
Both parameters can set the default value to null, and accepts any values.
Then create a new calculated field:
CASE
WHEN REGEXP_MATCH(User_ID,USER_ID_Parameter) AND REGEXP_MATCH(Password,Password_Parameter) THEN 1
ELSE 0
END
Then create a new filter to the chart that you want to hide:
To include the above calculated field Equal to 1
Second option is to use the Data Studio default Row Level Security
The only caveat is the users need to sign in before they can view the report.

apex how to login to another application from link in one application?

I have two applications in my workspace, APP 1 and APP 2.
In my case, user will log in to APP 1. from there, i put a menu(or a link) to APP 2. however APP 2 requires authentication. So it will take me to a login page. i would like to eliminate that and get the current user's credentials on APP 1 and login to APP 2.
i'm looking for a simple straightforward method (but need to consider security) to login to APP 2.
what i could think of is apex_collection..i could store credentials n use it to create a login process for APP 2. however apex_collection is session based. eventhough i've set session for APP 2, it still wont read values from my apex_collection.
Does anyone have a suggestion or a solution?
All you need to do is use the same authentication scheme in both applications and set the cookie name attribute to the same value in both authentication schemes like this:
APEX will then use the same session across the two applications and the user will not have to log in again when they navigate from one to the other, provided of course that you pass the SESSION_ID in the URL.
A Few Comments on Default APEX Workspace Authentication Security
It may also be helpful to expand on an explanation of why the solution posted by #TonyAndrews works.
For any Apex Apps within the same workspace, if they use the default "APEX Application Authentication" method, they will consult the same authentication user list... so USER1 and its password is a valid login for any of the "neighboring" applications...
This may be a concern if you are hosting different clients or users that should not be intermingling with the other applications. You can also define user GROUPS in the same place as you set up each workspace user. Each application can have its own security filter that permits access by membership of BOTH user/password authentication AND membership in the appropriate access group.
Sharing workspaces may also be a problem because of the unique user name restriction of a single workspace. You can get around that by:
Defining different name-spaces for each application:
Email addresses are good: "someuser#sampledomain.com"
An app id prefix such as: SHOP_EDNA, SHOP_GARRETT, TC_KAREN, TC_MARLOWE, MY_BORIS etc.
Different name styles: first name only, first name + last initial, etc.
To keep things simple, you can always just spin up a brand new workspace: a warning however is that common user names like `ADMIN` are NOT the same between separate workspaces. There shouldn't be much concern however because apps or workspace users may have the same or different schema access privileges to the database back end.
A Word of Caution to Administrators and Developers:
When you go live with an application or multiple applications on a user-facing system, keep in mind the deployment destination (i.e., the workspace) and what else is sharing that workspace. There are some real situations where apps are not intended to be shared or accessed by other "inside" users. Be sure to read up and understand the security constraints and methods of using Default Apex Authentication security so that it's more than luck that protects your own production/live deployed applications.
I do have the similar requirement, linking from one application page to another.
Tried the above mentioned solution, but still asking to login to second application. My Apex ver is 5.0.3 and trying in same workspace.
Created new authentication schemes for each app with same cookie name and set them as current authentication. Scheme type are Application express accounts.
Setting the link as below from first app page to second.
href="http://servername:port/apex/f?p=224:2:&APP_SESSION"
Could anyone provide a solution, please?
Just an update on this.
I am currently using v21.2 and this is how I do it:
In both applications, go to Shared Components > Authentication Schemes > (Select your Auth Scheme);
Scroll down to Session Sharing and select 'Workspace Sharing';
In one of the applications (source), create a link (as a Navigation Bar List entry, for example) like f?p=173:1:&SESSION., where 173 is the target application ID and 1 is the target page.
After some research, I've found out that this feature (Session Sharing Type) is available since v18 of APEX.

Automatically Creating Pages on the Server When an Entry in a Database is Created

Using PHP, does anyone know how to make it so that when someone registers on a website (and therefore enters data into a database), a folder with a default php file is created on the web root/server???
This is not a good design. Rather, you should have your PHP files look at the session to find the logged in user's id, and query the necessary data about that user id. You don't need a file for each user. You can make your table auto-increment a user id.

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