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shruthiRaghulashruthiRaghula 

How to maintain Session for Force.com sites

Created a website where User should be logged-in with his credentials and perform different activites by navigating to multiple visualforce pages.The problem here is mainatining Session of a particular User.

Can anyone assist..

 

Regards

Shruthi

EIE50EIE50

Hi,

 

After the user is logged in to the site / portal, it all depends on your re-directs in your VF pages (check if the user is logged in, then allow user to view content and if not logged in, prompt user to login etc.,.). The sites functionality automatically takes care of maintaining a session till the user clicks on logout.

 

Thanks.
MehaMeha

Registering a Site domain and Maintaining a Session

For all those people who want to register and free force.com site and maintain a session for users, I request you to first create a fresh developer.force.com account even if you have one and follow the following steps.

WORDS OF WISDOM

Instead of finding out why the problem is occurring in your existing portal and debugging it, create a new one and copy all your objects through workbench, copy and paste visualforce pages and apex classes to your new force.com account.

STEPS

  1. Customer Portal -> Settings -> Activate the portal, Enable Self Registration, Set Default New User License as Customer Portal Manager Standard, Set Default User Role as User and Default New User Profile as Customer Portal Manager Standard.
  2.  Create an Account and copy its Account ID
  3. Manage Users->Roles->Company size based sample-> Set up Roles->Either Add Role or Assign to existing role the above account created.
  4. Develop->Sites->Search availability and register a domain
  5. Edit the Site Details by providing name and other details. To start with keep the homepage as SiteLogin, Change Password as ChangePassword page and Profile Page as MyProfilePage.
  6. Activate the Site
  7. Click on Site Name and go to Login Settings->Edit->Select the customer portal so created
  8. Now the site is activated and login is enabled
  9. Go to SiteRegisterController page->Edit -> Replace the default PORTAL_ACCOUNT_ID with the above copied Account ID
  10. Go to MyProfileController->Edit->Comment the if condition which throws exception in case of Guest User.
  11. Go to SiteLoginController , change the return value of the login method with ‘return Page.MyProfilePage;’
  12. Go to Develop ->Sites->Click on Site URL
  13. If all the steps are done correctly, the Site will show hyperlinks for NewUser, ForgotPassword and Login on the Header as well as on the Output Panel.
  14. Click on New User, enter the details and on clicking submit you will be redirected to the Login page. Enter your username and password registered. If all the above steps are done correctly, you will be directed to the MyProfilePage which will show you the logged in user credentials alongwith change password button and a logout button.
  15. Copy paste the same URL on another browser or private browsing or incognito window and you will see the message of authentication required.
  16. If you click on Logout, you will be redirected to the login page again.