Getting autocomplete forms to work - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 14-Jan-2013 00:00

We have an issue with getting our login form to autocomplete. We submitted a ticket but it seems that we are stuck with this since we are using claims based authentication and its a known issue with Sitefinity that they are looking to overcome.

"The usual auto complete is provided as a feature from the browser. With the new Claims Authentication in Sitefinity the frontend login form does not submit a form but makes an AJAX request. Browsers do not detect this as submission and do not remember the values of the text fields."

In the mean time has anyone found a workaround that worked for them? We are unable to switch to forms based authentication.

Thank you

Posted by Community Admin on 16-Jan-2013 00:00

Hi Randy,

Thanks for using Sitefinity.

That statement is 100% true. It is usually handled by the browser, however, you can do some client-side handling if you want some sort of autocomplete to work.

You can start by creating a cookie that holds the username values submitted.

function createCookie(name,value,days)

if (days)

var date = new Date();

date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));

var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();

else var expires = "";

document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";

So when the button is clicked to log in you could call this function to create a cookie

First, though check if the cookie exists

function checkCookie(name)

var cookie = readCookie(name);

if (cookie != null)

return true;

else return false;

Kind regards,
Atanas Valchev
the Telerik team

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