Frequently, customers have a previous website where they have logins and passwords they would like to preserve in a new iMIS based website.
The following is sample Coldfusion code on how to access the new i15 MembershipWebService and user the RegisterWebUser method to load logins and passwords into iMIS in bulk.
This can also be modifled to replace the Generate Logins functionality of e-SEries by pre assigning logins and passwords based on a formula.
The RegisterWebUser method may be used anonymously and has limitations. If the site is still using e-Series, or uses e-Series security groups for Content Manager security, this method appears to make all users in the same security group, Anonymous. So code would have to be applied after generating the logins to update the Security Groups.
Also, the method enforces unique logins. It will throw an error if it encounters any duplicate login names.
Of course similar code can be created in ASP.NET to call the service, if any of you figure that out, please post so we have both methods. This is just an example of a transitional process to ease into ASP.NET public views.
Also attached code as attachment. It is wrapped in comment tags.
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<!---<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Bulk Assign Passwords</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<cfquery name="GetOldPasswords" datasource="CF_iMIS">
select n.ID contactID2, n.Member_Type, e.userLogin, e.userPassword, n.email
from Name n, Name_UD_Demographics d, eResourceContacts e, Name_Security ns
where n.ID = d.ID and e.oldContactID = d.PERSON_ER_ID
and ns.ID = n.ID and ns.WEB_LOGIN = ''
and n.MEMBER_TYPE <> 'STAFF' and e.userLogin <> ''
and n.Member_Type = 'INDIV'
</cfquery>
<cfoutput>
<cfloop query="GetOldPasswords">
<cftry>
<cfinvoke webservice="http://www.xyz.com/imis15/AsiCommon/Services/Membership/MembershipWebservice.asmx?wsdl"
method="RegisterWebUser" returnvariable="results">
<cfinvokeargument name="contactID" value=#contactID2#>
<cfinvokeargument name="username" value=#userLogin#>
<cfinvokeargument name="password" value=#userPassword#>
<cfinvokeargument name="email" value=#email#>
<cfinvokeargument name="passwordQuestion" value="">
<cfinvokeargument name="passwordAnswer" value="">
<cfinvokeargument name="isApproved" value="True">
</cfinvoke>
<cfcatch>
<cfoutput>
<cflog text="#cfcatch.message#" log="APPLICATION" type="Error" thread="yes" date="yes" time="yes"
application="yes">
<script>
alert('MembershipWebservice Error \(ValidateUser\) #cfcatch.message# #contactID2#');
history.go (-1);
</script>
<cfabort>
</cfoutput>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>
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| Attachment | Size |
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| GenerateLoginsCode.txt | 1.75 KB |
This VB code works as well.
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim ContactID As String
Dim userName As String
Dim Password As String
Dim email As String
Dim passwordQuestion As String
Dim passwordAnswer As String
Dim isApproved As Boolean
Dim ws As New Asi.Web.Services.Membership.MembershipWebService
Dim rtn As New Asi.Web.Services.Membership.WebServiceProxyableMembershipUser
ContactID = "99999"
userName = "login"
Password = "password02"
email = "email@email.com"
passwordQuestion = "enter your question here?"
passwordAnswer = "enter your answer here"
isApproved = True
' call the web service here.
rtn = ws.CreateImisUser(False, True, ContactID, userName, Password, email, passwordQuestion, passwordAnswer, True)
End Sub