I had a customer today that asked the question below. Also figure to have another one shortly. So I am seeking guidance on how to approach the need to authenticate with the membership web service and get an iMIS ID. It is not clear how or if you get a cookie that can be read, or can return the ID. I know that getting an ID was not available in the membership web service in previous versions.

Please post suggestions on how to approach.

This is her question:

 I now need to generate a list of conference participants on our www.xyz.org site (an ASP site)

We're trying to track someone's path in WCM.   

The .NET session id (HttpContext.Current.Session.SessionID)does not get reset when someone logs in or out of WCM.  We need to recognize separate logins as separate visits.

Is there something in iMIS that we can use for this? something like Asi.ContentManagerNet.SessionState.SessionID? 

We want to consider each login to WCM to be a unique activity.

We have a number of custom administrative tools that we're moving into a separate, internal-only, Web site.

Currently the applications use their own ASP.NET authentication tables, but it would be ideal to leverage the information contained within iMIS directly. Not single-sign on, but sign-on validating against iMIS.

Since we've already got the site setup, I wanted an addition that would impact the site as little as possible. For that reason, I decided to first look at the Membership Web services - methods returned by the service and some detail on http://www.imiscommunity.com/use_the_membership_web_service as well - and see if we could successfully leverage that.

I am looking to write a very simple JavaScript that fades a set of 4 header logo's in and out in sequence.

The script itself is no problem and I can put it into an external .js file and link that into the site. However, I am wondering what is the best way to go about handling the location of the images themselves.

If I write absolute URLs into the Javascript I assume that they will not get rewritten by the WCM and so if the root path of the site changes, the JS will need editing. But as the Javascript will be writing to the page after the WCM has rendered the content, I assume that using the iMIS URL replacement codes in the Javascript wouldn't work either?

This doesn't seem to be working as documented. I have content in an application under a website and on the same server, different url/ip, I have it installed as the root of the web. I have added both URLs to the URL(s) pointing to the IIS Website Root, but it is not taking the URL Name of this Website for the url on the second instance of the site (website root, not application). When I type in the URL/IP address of the site, it is opening the casual site instead of the WCM site. The documentation does not offer any troubleshooting tips for this. Once I can get this resolved, my customer can finally go live with his site. Any ideas?

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We have a customer who started playing with WCM in a web folder called Demo.  They continued developing in that folder and now have a completed site that they just want to rename and go live with.  This is all on the production server, not a staging server.  Is there a way to just rename the folder and web and go with what they have?  We have tried exporting, creating a new folder and importing but since the content already exists under those names in the database, we get errors.  Any thoughts?

Has anyone worked with wCM long enough and have multiple site where the navigation is in folder structures and causing long URLs with duplicate folder names?  See below, the site name wcmdemo is listed once for the navigation and once for the content, can this be changed?  I have setup a second app server and single site in IIS to host it at a native URL without the need for the site name so that will help, but it still adds more to the URL then is necessary and will impact the nice clean URLs that wCM should have.

I'm building a SharePoint WebPart, and using iMIS 15.1.1

SSO is working, so the SharePoint client is authenticated.

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How do I get the iMIS UserID?

Is there a method on the MembershipWebService.asmx that can do that for me?

If there is no suitable method available, please suggest an approach!

Thank you,

~ Boris

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