WEB EDITOR SPECIAL PAGES LOGIN

Overview

The Login Page is a specially designed page type that allows you protect some of your pages with username and password. To better understand EZGenerator concept on page protection, check Page Protection & Central Admin first.

To add a Login page to your site:

Click the Web module icon in the Navigation Bar.
From the File menu, select Add.
In the Add Page window, select Login for a page type.
Set any other options you want and press OK.

Basics

The Login page is a web form containing only two fields - username and password. When users visit a page that is password protected, they are directed to the Login page first and prompted to fill in the correct username&password to receive access to the protected page.

You may use one Login page to protect multiple pages, or separate Login page for each protected page. Each login page is something like section that you use to group your protected pages.

How to protect a page:

Create a Login page.
Go to the page you want to protect.
Go to its Page Settings panel.
Select Protected in Protection property.
Select the already created login page in Login property.

You can make your Login page invisible, and when users try to access the protected page, the Login page will be opened automatically.

After you create Login page and protect certain pages with it, you need to create user accounts with access to the already protected pages.

How to create user account:

Go to Central Admin.
Go to Add User screen.
Define user.

The following properties are available in the Login Settings panel:

Error message (text box) - Enter here the message to be displayed if users fill in wrong username&password combination.
Section name (text box) - Enter here the Login page friendly name. This name will be used in Central Admin interface.
Start page (url picker) - Select Start page for the Login. This is the page you will be redirected after successful login.

Note: This page is used only when you go directly to Login page.

Accessible Fields and Special Objects

The following special objects are accessible in the Login page:

Submit Button - Creates an image button "submit", which handles the login process.
Username - Inserts an edit box for users to write the username.
Password - Inserts an edit box for users to write the password.
Nopagefooter - Creates NOPAGEFOOTER macros, which disables footer on Login page.