topic Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

TomSellsted — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:27:51 GMT

Greetings! I am working on a JS API app that uses some secured ArcGIS Server services. The IdentityManager does work well for this purpose, but I am using a Windows Domain for my user store and the app users have to type in a complete domain\username to be able to properly log in. This is not a big deal on a desktop, but it is much more difficult from an iPhone.

Is there a way to bypass the IdentityManager and save the username, so they don't have to type it in? They would still need to type in a password?

Thanks very much!

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

JonathanUihlein — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:58:00 GMT

What about local storage or a cookie?

This would require a user to log in once, but you could save the username for future logins on that device.

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

TomSellsted — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:51:21 GMT

I would definitely use local storage or a cookie, but how do I populate the IdentityManager with the username?

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

JonathanUihlein — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:54:31 GMT

Check out the Esri JSAPI documentation, there's alot of samples and tutorials for you to digest.

This sample uses local storage.... This is probably the one you're after:
https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jssamples/widget_identitymanager_client_side.html

Here's another sample about using the Identity Manager:
https://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/jssamples/widget_identitymanager.html

Hopefully this helps!
Let me know if you have any more questions and don't forget to mark this thread as answered when you are completely satisfied!

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

TomSellsted — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:13:04 GMT

I have used both of these examples. This is not what I am looking for. I am trying to populate the username field of the IdentityManager and have the user key their password to login.

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

JonathanUihlein — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:18:01 GMT

Why can't you use javascript to populate the username input element directly via DOM manipulation?

You know the id of the input element ahead of time so you can push a username into the value of that element from local storage. (Heck you can even use dijit.byId)

Can you explain why this wouldn't work?

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

TomSellsted — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:26:46 GMT

That is what I am trying to do. I guess I don't know the id of the username input element presented by the IdentityManager. I would use the on-create event of the IdentityManager to populate the username input field. I am sure I am going to dope slap my forehead, but it has eluded me. Thanks for your help!

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

JonathanUihlein — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:54:46 GMT

OK great! I had wrongfully assumed you had tried this method first as it is the easiest and most straight forward... my apologies.

Using the sample page as a demo:
http://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/samples/widget_identitymanager/

Using Firebug, I can see that the id of the input element is 'dijit_form_ValidationTextBox_0'

I can edit the value of the text field like so:

dijit.byId("dijit_form_ValidationTextBox_0").set("value", "jonuihlein");

Screenshot also attached.

Let me know if you have any more questions and don't forget to mark this thread as answered when you are completely satisfied!

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

TomSellsted — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:48:01 GMT

Jon,

Perfect! You probably did hear me dope slap my forehead. I use FireBug too. I need to spend some time inspecting the HTML elements. Thanks very much!

Best Regards,

Tom

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

TomSellsted — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:12:10 GMT

The dialog-create event fires before the dialog is created. I have not been able to figure out how to populate the field as the dialog is presented. Any ideas of what event I need to listen for?

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

TomSellsted — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:05:17 GMT

It appears that the dialog-create fires before the dialog is actually created, not just after. The only way I could find to add an event to it was a bit of jQuery. This is not ideal as the dialog name might change ect... It would be ideal to have another event that would fire when the dialog is displayed. Here is the jquery line of code:

$('body').on('show','#dijit_Dialog_0',loadUsername);

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

JonathanUihlein — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 04:37:13 GMT

Did some quick research and the dialog-create event was working for me.

 
IdentityManager.on('dialog-create', testFunction);

function testFunction(){
        IdentityManager.dialog.txtUser_.set("value", "jon");
        //dijit.byId("dijit_form_ValidationTextBox_0").set("value", "jon");
}

You can use either of these... the dialog object itself is referenced as a property of the IdentityManager object.

Hope this helps... I suspect it may not be the penultimate solution but will wait to hear from you.

Re: Login to ArcGIS Server Secured Services

TomSellsted — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:52:47 GMT

Perfect Jon! I had the IdentityManager listed in the require statement, but I did not have it listed in the function variables. Thanks very much!