We use SFDC Customer Portal for allowing our customers access to portal features such as product documentation and case management. One of our business requirements is to require customers to accept an agreement before they can choose a password and gain access to the portal.
Is this scenario possible with configuration of the customer portal or is this something that will require us to code custom visual force pages? Appreciate any pointers in this regard.
Thanks
-Subhash
There is no configuration setting in Customer Portal that lets you do this natively. However you can easily implement this using a Visualforce page. Customize the landing page (login page) so that the login options are only shown when the user accepts the User Agreement using javascript or visualforce ajax.
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We used to be able to have social accounts request access packages by signing in at myaccess.microsoft.com. Now, we get an error that says you can not sign in with a personal account. Why is this the case since it remains possible to create a domain like gmail.com or outlook.com as a connected organization in Entitlement Management?
Also, after landing on the myaccess portal and expanding an access package that a user has been approved for to view its resources, it used to be able for example, to open a SharePoint site or an application directly from this view by simply clicking on the resource or clicking an open Now that ability has been removing leaving us to have to send links tot he resource to users. This degrades experience substantially. Can we have this ability returned?
Please check the type of personal account in your portal, and if guest, you cannot log in myaccess.onmicrosoft.com , if created in the portal or of type member, it is accessible.
This is the relevant doc.
Sign in to the My Access portal.
Be sure you use your organizational (work or school) account. If
you're unsure, check with your project or business manager.
I invited my personal account (user type) to test if I login directly myaccess.onmicrosoft.com.And the following screenshots do report errors.
I have a requirement where I have created an community.
Contact will create an account. This will give them access to the portal where they can login to the community at any point and can fill out an applications for the programs.
No Tabs just a home screen with user’s contact info
Link on left:
My Account
My Applications
My Groups
Chatter
Once an application is approved, user will be made a member of the corresponding group.
If part of community but not part of any programs, they will have access to general chatter
Group Pages – will have separate chatter and home page.
Can anyone please help me with this?
I am currently working on a project where i have to make a Hotel Booking Application. There will be general user who will browse through available rooms and will have to login to book. Hotel owners will have account to manage their inventory. And there will be admin section to manage the app. I am confused about what is the best approach to scale this kind of app in Laravel. Because each kind of account will require different type of authentication. I have thought multitennent approach but doesn't seem like This app falls into this category. Thanks in Advance for any help.
For this scenario, you can implement Role based authentication.
You need to create 3 roles.
Hotel Owner
Application Administrtor
General user.
Based on the role, you need to provide access. If you haven't developed Authentication system, you can use Entrust along with Confide.
Entrust provides a flexible way to add Role-based Permissions to Laravel4.
Confide is an authentication solution for Laravel made to cut repetitive work involving the management of users.
How can visualforce pages and their respective controllers be hosted on SFDC but have my own domain name and URL extension being used when directing users to them?
I am building pages in VisualForce with Apex controller extensions in the background and would like to know how to direct my users to them whilst still prepended the filename with my own URL and not na9.salesforce......
Would these pages have to be hosted on Sites.com Or can I host them as pages in my developer.force.com account? I think the first because if they were to be hosted within SFDC then a login would be required to view the pages?
I am so confused that things are not going well. I know that SFDC want everything to be integrated but i think that users should just be happy with a single solution that does not have modules thrown all over the place where you need bespoke training to use effectively.
Salesforce.com's Sites is the technology that you are going to need to use if you want to provide your own domain (URL). Essentially, with that technology you can setup a guest account for anonymous user access. So everything still runs under the context of a user it would just be this generic guest account.
This article explains the details of mapping your Domain to the Salesforce.com Site domain.
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Force.com_Sites_Best_Practices
We are trying to build one simple website using force.com sites.Here User logged into website and need to perform different actions by moving to different VF pages.
We are facing a Problem to maintaine Session of particular user. We need help regarding how to maintaine session for particular user.
Kindly give your help. Please provide any sample code.
Thanks.
You can't ;)
Think about it, you can store usernames/passwords in your data objects and if they allow you to login and maintain a session for that user and use it to walk around apex pages and builtin forms why would you buy a salesforce license? You could operate a 1000 employees rig with just one administrative license and a site URL. For that reason salesforce does not allow you session control, it grants you one when you buy and expense a license.
For sites, you have to purchase either Customer Portal license or volume-based High Volume Customer Portal set and then use those to "promote" a contact into a login user with the above license. Then, when that user logs into site it has its own session.
This document http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Authenticating_Users_on_Force.com_Sites might be of great help.
This tutorial shows you how to authenticate users on Force.com Sites. It provides a description of Customer Portal, which is needed for the authentication, and shows you how to set up such a site and process to allow site visitors to become authenticated users.
The points on customer portal are correct, and you have to pay for these licences. If you build your own auth on Force.com Sites and salesforce.com finds out they'll be very unhappy. That said you can still do it using cookies (http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_classes_sites_cookie.htm) but it's not perfect because it's client-side.
I highly recommend that you steer clear of this approach though. You're better off building your UI layer on another platform (Google App Engine or Heroku) and using web services created on the Force.com platform through that UI.