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Registration/Edit My Profile and Login portlets

The Registration/Edit My Profile and Login portlet resides on special pages where the anonymous user has access rights based on the User role.

The unique name wps.Login is assigned to the page holding the login portlet, and the unique name wps.Selfcare is assigned to the page holding the Registration/Edit My Profile portlet.

The Registration/Edit My Profile portlet is for subscriber management. Registration allows users to register for access and information entered during Registration can be updated in Edit My Profile. Registration is also referred to as "Sign up".

This topic is divided into the following subtopics:


Registration/Edit My Profile

During Registration, the user enters mandatory data, such as the user ID and first and last names. The user has the option to select the preferred language from a list of available languages. WebSphere Portal uses this language in all interactions and makes this information available to all portlets so that they can adapt to the user preference. If a language is not selected, WebSphere Portal determines which language to use from the users' browser settings.

Parameter Name Registration/Edit My Profile portlet configuration parameters
HomePageUniqueName Identify the page to be selected if the user clicks Cancel. Update this parameter to match your environment.

Default: ibm.portal.Home

GenerateCN Whether WebSphere Portal should generate the value of the cn attribute from the supplied user attributes.

Default: true

attr_XXX This portlet applies special handling to a subset of user attributes. The attr_XXX parameters can be used to match the actual attribute name to the logical name used in the portlet.

Attributes that receive special handling:

alternativeCalendar, cn, email, firstDayOfWeek, firstName, firstWorkDayOfWeek, lastName, password, preferredCalendar, preferredLanguage, timeZone, uid


Creating new attributes for the Registration/Edit My Profile portlet

You can change information entered at registration. Administrators can determine what information appears in the profile. LDAP or member management fields determine what fields appear as potential fields for the user profile. Some fields are disabled because they are required fields in PUMA (user management), and cannot be removed. Optional attributes can be added using the configuration mode of the portlet.

If you do not see the required attribute displayed in the configuration mode, review the information under Adapting the attribute configuration to ensure that the attribute was properly added and/or mapped.

By default, the same portlet instance is used for Registration and for Edit My Profile. In this design, changes made with the configure link apply to both cases.

Since a separate instance of the Registration/Edit My Profile portlet exists for each virtual portal, it is possible to have different customized portlets for each virtual portal.


Login

Access the Login portlet by clicking Login in the theme. The Login portlet can also be placed on any page.

Since a separate instance of the Login portlet exists for each virtual portal, it is possible to have different customized portlets for each virtual portal.

The remember-me setting can be enabled to appear in the login portlet. To enable the remember-me parameter, set login portlet parameters...

Parameter name Login portlet configuration parameters
HomePageUniqueName Identify the page to be selected if the user clicks Cancel. This parameter will need to be updated to match your environment.

Default: ibm.portal.Home

RememberMeCookieAttribute Which user attribute will be parsed out of the Remember Me cookie information and used as the userid in the Login portlet. The correct value for this will most likely be the default search attribute of the user registry.

Default: uid

ShowRememberMe Whether or not the Login portlet will present the Remember Me function. Successful configuration and enablement of the base Remember Me mechanism must be completed for this to have any effect.

Default: yes

ShowDetailedMessages Whether or not the Login portlet will show detailed error messages. Detailed messages may make it easier for hackers to determine valid user credentials.

Default: false

ShowResumeSession Whether or not the Login portlet will show the option to resume a user session, assuming the appropriate configuration to enable session resumption has been set.

Default: yes

ShowSignupLink Whether or not the Login portlet will show the "Sign up" link. The anonymous user must also have the requisite permissions for this to be enabled.

Default: yes

UseSecureLoginActionUrl Whether or not the Login action will use a secure connection to the Login portlet. This requires appropriate configuration to accept the secure URL.

Default: false

If when a user logs in, they get directed back to the login page, set access rights on the Login Page so that only Anonymous users have access. If an authenticated user then tries to access the page, the Portal will redirect them to (what it thinks) is the next logical page to which they have access, which should be the Home page.


Parent topic:

Users and groups


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