Portal Logout Feature

It maybe the wrong answer, but it is the only 1 I know ... so far {i am a Lawson newbie }

try an IOS cache refresh? Try it OnExit from the program and that should clear ALL the cache.

My gut sez this maybe a nuclear bomb to your small bug, but as I mentioned before, it is the only 1 I know.

syntax:: http://[servername]/servlet/IOSCacheRefresh

Your Milage May Vary...but let me know.

Take a look at this and see if it helps:

http://www.schronce.net/l...on/portal_logout.txt

Thanks for replying. I did see the portal logout fix in the latest version of the guru newsletter. It works slow, but great! Now if I could just get the window to close after logout instead of going back to the login page.....

If you figure that one out, please share it with the Group!

There is a way to close the window after logout, but it requires a minor trick. You must redirect to a page that immediately closes itself.

You redirect to a new page by replacing the parent.location.reload() call with location.replace("closewindow.html"). (Assuming that you have commented out the 401 status conditional, because the httpRequest no longer returns a 401.)

Create a new page named closewindow.html that closes itself through its onLoad function:

My attempt to include HTML in the previous post obviously didn't work. I'll try again without the angle barckets around the HTML tags (remember to put them back when creating the page):

html
body onLoad="this.focus();self.opener=this;self.close();"
/body
/html

Hi, Can you make the logout feature work under Netscape? Under IE, it works fine. However, the LOGOUT button does not even show up under Netscape.

Thanks,

Tony

No, it only works for IE.

In theory you could make it work for Netscape, but it would require modifications to /lawson/portal/v3.js. Removing the "if(logout.length>0 && lawsonPortal.browser.isIE)" conditional ought to make logout button appear. You would then need to experiment with ways to perform the logout: Lawson's kludgy method of passing invalid authentication credentials? the appropriate Netscape API for clearing credentials (nsIHttpAuthManager?)? closing the browser window?

Thanks for the clues. Your suggestion led me to the following findings:

Under Netscape, in order to modify users' browser settings, I have to kind of opening up the security door to allow my scripts to work. There are two ways to achieve that:

A: Using Codebase support

1. Modify the pref.js file - which I do not have success to see it takes effect, after I change it. e.g, user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);

2. Modify the configuration and set signed.applets.codebase_principal_support to true. This does work for me. This is important. It allow my script to work otherwise exception will be thrown.

B: Signed Script

This is involving using NSS Signing tool to associating your script and Jar file containing your certificate, by specifying tag in your script

After implemented either of the above method, the API such as
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalPreferencesRead");
to manipulating the history object, for example. or
user_pref("capability.principal.myapp.granted","UniversalXPConnect");
to clear browser cache, for example.

Now I know why Lawson excludes the Logout button for Nescape!

Hope above info helps someone in my shoe to solve his/her problems.

Thanks and regards.