Static HTML Form To Create Login Account

4xjbh

Currently I am displaying a registration form with

Enter New Contact Using NewAccountRegistration

Can a static html form be used to create a login registration form and have the parameters passed to a process? If so how do you access the input values in the process if the button activates the process?

Thank you.

aware_support

Not sure I understand this, but a login form needs to be created outside of Aware IM using HTML/CSS/Javasript

4xjbh

A new user gets to https://localhost:8080/app/logonGuest.aw?domain=xxx#/home for example and is presented with a static html page that may say "Create an account blah blah blah" and give you a button that activates a process and presents the new registration form from 'Enter New Contact Using NewAccountRegistration' (Thats how I have it at the moment.

To pretty up that page I wanted to use the inputs you can create in the static html, linked to the Contact BO and use the button to start the process, which creates the account, sends off the registration email etc...

Creating that static html form and the button linked to the process is easy enough. How do I get the form data into the process?

ie. Create Contact With Contact.FirstName=aaa, Contact.LastName=bbb

'aaa' and 'bbb' is the form data passed from the button press.

(Sorry if this is to verbose.....)

pureist

I think he wants to know whether it is possible to access/capture values entered in <input> tags in a custom html/css form and pass them to/use them in a process.
ie. access the value in an <input type="text" name="fname"> tag in the form and use it in the process which runs following the form button click.
it seems like this should be a capability which exists as it would be useful to many developers.

Jaymer

he needs to know how to access a <FORM> variable inside aware, after the form is submitted.

in magic we would use HTTPVAR('aaa') to retrieve that value inside a magic program.

aware_support

You need to use a URL parameter called "firstCommand"

Please check the User Guide for details (search for "firstCommand")

pureist

he wrote:
"I wanted to use the INPUTS you can create in the static html"
"How do I get the form data into the process?"

He seems to be talking about already being logged into an aware application and creating a new user ("a login registration form") and having a form created by html and css in a content panel, and the form has <input> tags on it and a button which runs a process.

And the user entered values in the input tags to be passed to the process when the button is clicked to create the new user login.

Unless somehow HTTP methods GET or POST could be used to send the input tag values to a php page on the server which assembles a URL containing First Command with values and that URL when returned is run in the current tab using DISPLAY URL, which creates the object instance, then it doesn't seem likely that First Command is applicable to his question IF he is talking about already being logged in.

4xjbh

No, not logged in yet. This is first time account creation for NEW tennant.

BobK

James,

If I understand your requirements correctly, the following should help you. It is not pretty, but it works.

Put this html in the AwareIM folder and give you users a link to this form.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Test firstCommand</title>

</head>

<body>
<form id="login" action="[color=#008000]logonGuest.aw[/color]" method="post" name="submitForm" id="submitForm" oninput="firstCommand.value='startProcessWithInit,[color=#FF0000]MyInitProcess[/color],main,[color=#FF0000]MyInitObject[/color],[color=#FF0000]attr1[/color]='+[color=#0000FF]field1[/color].value+'[color=#408000]@[/color][color=#FF0000]attr2[/color]='+[color=#0000FF]field2[/color].value">
    <fieldset id="inputs">
        <input id="domain"  type="hidden" name="domain" value="[color=#FF0000]BSV[/color]">

<input id="firstCommand" type="hidden" name="firstCommand">
[color=#008000]Label1[/color]: <input id="[color=#0000FF]field1[/color]" type="text" name="[color=#0000FF]field1[/color]">
[color=#008000]Label2[/color]: <input id="[color=#0000FF]field2[/color]" type="text" name="[color=#0000FF]field2[/color]">

    </fieldset>

    <fieldset id="actions">
        <input type="submit" id="submit" value="Log in">
    </fieldset>
</form>
</body>


</html>

Additional information and required changes:
logonGuest.aw => Accessing AwareIM as a guest, no need for a login name or password. Be sure the guess accesslevel has access to your BO, the BO attributes and the your process.

MyInitProcess => change to your process name

MyInitObject => change to your BO

attr1 and attr2 => change to attribute names in your BO

@ => you can have more than 2 attributes, just put @ between the name=value pairs

field1 and field2 => these can be anything, just make sure they are the same in the input and oninput clauses. IMO I would use your attribute names

BSV => change to your BSV

Label1 and Label2 => change to what makes sense for your form

BobK

The oninput clause should be:

oninput="firstCommand.value='startProcessWithInit,MyInitProcess,main,MyInitObject,
attr1='+field1.value+'@attr2='+field2.value">

Don't know why the last piece does not display when it is all 1 line

hpl123

Nice, thx Bob

4xjbh

Thank you everyone.

4xjbh

I am getting this error message

Process AccountCreate2 not found in business space version

Guest has full access to process = 'AccountCreate2 ' and the BSV = 'aec', BO = 'Contact'

Attribute permission was set and when it failed 'Full access' was tried to all attributes....

oninput="firstCommand.value='startProcessWithInit,AccountCreate2,main,Contact,@FirstName='+field1.value+'@LastName='+field2.value+'@EmailAddress='+field3.value"

Any suggestions on why it cannot see the process?

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aware_support

The error message says that the process is not in the business space version. Possible reason is that you are logging in the production mode instead of the testing mode or vice versa. If you process is only in the version UNDER TEST and your CURRENT version doesn't have this process yet, then you would get this message.

4xjbh

The error message says that the process is not in the business space version. Possible reason is that you are logging in the production mode instead of the testing mode or vice versa. If you process is only in the version UNDER TEST and your CURRENT version doesn't have this process yet, then you would get this message.

Ahh yes, of course. Thank you.

So how do you access the firstCommand value pair string in the process. The only mention of firstCommand in the user guide is in appendix d and no info on how to access the string from a process.

CREATE Contact WITH Contact.FirstName=@FirstName,Contact.LastName=@LastName,....does not work

pureist

I think the '@' is only a separator/delimitter.
Look at what Bob wrote:
"@ => you can have more than 2 attributes, just put @ between the name=value pairs"
and..
"attr1='+field1.value+'@attr2='+field2.value"
there is no @ before the first attribute.
Thus '@' is a separator based on these two clues.
It seems you should just be able to use attr1 or (attr1) or some permutation.

4xjbh

Almost there.

So I tried attr1='+FirstName.value......etc in the query string and I got an error "attr1 was not found in business object contact".

Fine.

So now the string looks like this:

oninput="firstCommand.value='startProcessWithInit,AccountCreate2,main,Contact,FirstName='+FirstName.value+'@LastName='+LastName.value+'@EmailAddress='+EmailAddress.value"

And inputs like this:

<fieldset id="inputs">
<input id="domain" type="hidden" name="domain" value="aec">
<input id="firstCommand" type="hidden" name="firstCommand">
First Name: <input id="FirstName" type="text" name="FirstName">
Last Name: <input id="LastName" type="text" name="LastName">
Email: <input id="EmailAddress" type="text" name="EmailAddress">
</fieldset>

And my process string is:

CREATE Contact WITH Contact.FirstName=Contact.FirstName,Contact.LastName=Contact.LastName,Contact.EmailAddress=Contact.EmailAddress,Contact.ContactType='Employee',Contact.AccessLevel='AccountAdmin',Contact.EnableLogin='Yes'

When I create the record with 11111, 22222 and 33333@example.com I don't get an error message that the email address is required when a contact has access enabled (a rule). and the data '11111', '22222' and '33333' is stored in the database. '@example.com' is getting stripped off somewhere. I tried AS_STRING(Contact.EmailAddress) with no joy.

BobK

James,

The @ in EmailAddress is causing a problem. The only solution I was able to get working was to change the oninput to

oninput="firstCommand.value='startProcessWithInit,AccountCreate2,main,Contact,FirstName='+FirstName.value+'@LastName='+LastName.value+'@EmailAddress='+EmailAddress.value.replace('@', '!')">

That will change @ to ! in the EmailAddress.

Then in AwareIM add a rule to use REPLACE_PATTERN to change ! back to @

Also, you do not need to create the Contact, just add it to the process input on the General tab of the process

4xjbh

Thanks Bob,

That worked a treat. I was just explicit setting the other attributes in the process and it all looks good. (except for this awful html form).

Contact.AccessLevel='AccountAdmin'

Time to get my html & CSS hat on now. Man it felt like I was pushing shit uphill on that one.

Thank you everyone.

BobK

4xjbh wrote
(except for this awful html form).

Back in my first post I said it was not pretty :lol:

FYI: if you want to run it in test mode, add the following to your html
<input id="testingMode" type="hidden" name="testingMode" value="true">