Frontend: user register, login, change password, recover password?
I'm trying to implement frontend user registration/login/logout/change password/recover password functionality. I created a login page and dragged and dropped a "Login" widget on the page. By default, the "CreateUserUrl", "PasswordChangeUrl" and "PasswordRecoveryUrl" properties are set to display backend pages. I assume that I need to creat frontend pages with Register, Change Password, and Recover Password functionality? But the "Login" widgets toolbox doesn't appear to include widgets that support this. What's the best way to do this?
Thanks--Steve
Hello Steve,
You can change the url of those pages to whatever you like, however you will need to construct the logic of such widget because we do not provide such custom functionality out of the box, except for the built in password recovery page ( as well as the others ).
The following article may be useful to you, as it provides sample forgot password widget functionality:
www.sitefinity.com/.../implement-forgot-password-functionalilty-in-sitefinity-application.aspx
Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team
Hi Victor,
Thanks for the reply. I've had a look at the post you referenced and maybe I'm being dense but I'm still confused. I assume I need to create custom controls for Registration, Password Recovery, etc. Is that correct?
Assuming this was the case I created a custom control named "PasswordRecoveryWidget" with the following code:
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="PasswordRecoveryWidget.ascx.cs" Inherits="SitefinityWebApp.CustomControls.PasswordRecoveryWidget" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %><sf:PasswordRecoveryForm runat="server" AllowSelectMembershipProvider="true" ID="PWRecoveryForm" MailDefinition-From="webmaster@mydomain.org" MailDefinition-IsBodyHtml="True" MailDefinition-Subject="Password Recovery"></sf:PasswordRecoveryForm>Ok, I answered a few of my own questions:
The problem with the password recovery custom control turned out to be a problem with the way I created the control. That's fixed and now works.
Regarding passwordFormat changes; changing the password format doesn't break login for existing users but it doesn't fix the "Cannot retrieve Hashed passwords." problem for users that were created when the passwordFormat parameter was set to "Hashed". Not a problem in my case since the site hasn't been rolled out but this could be a pretty big problem if you've got hundreds or thousands of users and decide to later make the change. This potential pitfall should probably be included in the docs somewhere.
--Steve
Hello Steve,
Glad to hear that you were able to resolve the issue. I want to note that the widgets ( regarding the user registration and activation ) are still in development so you can expect news on that front at some point in the future.
Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team
Hi Victor,
Good to hear you guys are going to be adding this. Is there an ETA for availability of the new widgets?
Thanks--Steve
Hi Steve,
Unfortunately we do not have an exact date when the widgets will exit their beta stage, but it will be after Sitefinity 4.4.
Greetings,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team
Hi Olivia,
All the best,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team
Hi Victor,
The link in your reply: http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/general-discussions/frontend-user-register-login-change-password-recover-password.aspx is broken; I am getting a server error so am unable to see the page.
Hi Lewis,
I am sorry for the broken link. Here is the correct one.
Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team