Customization for "anonymous" users

[Wolfgang Miller-Reichling <wo...@webde-ag.de>]

Hi everybody,

I'm quite new to Jetspeed and have a few questions regarding
customization. If I understand correctly, customized portal pages for a
specific user are stored as .psml in WEB-INF/pages/user/<username>.
What I'd like to do is to give anonymous users (meaning without logging
into the portal, maybe identified through a cookie) the possibility to
customize their own view to the portal. Could this be done by
automatically creating a new user for everyone using the portal that
cannot be identified? If yes, where would be a good starting point to do
this? (Of course I'd have to "expire" unused user profiles every once in
a while). 

Wolfgang




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Re: Customization for "anonymous" users

[Randy Watler <wa...@wispertel.net>]

Wolfgang

> I actually need/want the new user accounts
>to be created completely automatic, preferably with a different role
>than non-automatic users. Do you have any pointers how I would start
>doing this?
>  
>
Not sure of the best approach. I'd look at implementing a custom 
UserManager that
provides the PSML account creation and perhaps some security SPI 
extensions to
customize Authentication/Authorization. YMMV.

Please refer to the list, (and the dev list) archives for more detailed 
tips.

Randy



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Re: Customization for "anonymous" users

[Wolfgang Miller-Reichling <wo...@webde-ag.de>]

Randy Watler <wa...@wispertel.net> wrote:

> The anon user is always mapped to the "guest" user in J2. To use the 
> customized pages, the end user should be logged into J2. There are 
> plenty of ways to accomplish this.

> Another option might be to use advanded profiling rules to descriminate 
> users all officially known as "guest" by J2... but I would not start there.

> Automatic user page creation is not implemented AFAIK. In the future, 
> the page customizer will be able to do this. Of course, using official 
> logins will be preferred.

> I too have a requirement to allow guest users to request an official 
> login, but that the access be granted later by an admin. Do you new user 
> accounts need to be truely automatic or simply streamlined?

Thanks for your answer Randy. I actually need/want the new user accounts
to be created completely automatic, preferably with a different role
than non-automatic users. Do you have any pointers how I would start
doing this?

Wolfgang
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Re: Customization for "anonymous" users

[Randy Watler <wa...@wispertel.net>]

Wolfgang,

The anon user is always mapped to the "guest" user in J2. To use the 
customized pages, the end user should be logged into J2. There are 
plenty of ways to accomplish this.

Another option might be to use advanded profiling rules to descriminate 
users all officially known as "guest" by J2... but I would not start there.

Automatic user page creation is not implemented AFAIK. In the future, 
the page customizer will be able to do this. Of course, using official 
logins will be preferred.

I too have a requirement to allow guest users to request an official 
login, but that the access be granted later by an admin. Do you new user 
accounts need to be truely automatic or simply streamlined?

Randy

Wolfgang Miller-Reichling wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm quite new to Jetspeed and have a few questions regarding
>customization. If I understand correctly, customized portal pages for a
>specific user are stored as .psml in WEB-INF/pages/user/<username>.
>What I'd like to do is to give anonymous users (meaning without logging
>into the portal, maybe identified through a cookie) the possibility to
>customize their own view to the portal. Could this be done by
>automatically creating a new user for everyone using the portal that
>cannot be identified? If yes, where would be a good starting point to do
>this? (Of course I'd have to "expire" unused user profiles every once in
>a while). 
>
>Wolfgang
>
>
>
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