Adding a change password link in a custom portlet

Question

Hi,
Does anyone know how to add a change password link in a custom portlet? the custom nav UI we have does not show the my account link, we want to hide this complexity for external users, but we still want them to be able to change their password.
I am expirimenting with using the following link, which seems to work fine, but was wondering if there was a more elegant way to do it using pt: tags?
<pt:transformer pt:fixurl="off" xmlns:pt='http://www.plumtree.com/xmlschemas/ptui/'/>Change]http://servername/portal/server.pt?space=ChangePassword&&control=EditorStart&editorType=10">ChangePassword</a><pt:transformer pt:fixurl="on" xmlns:pt='http://www.plumtree.com/xmlschemas/ptui/'/>
Thanks

Answer 1

Hrm... this does get ugly... This has come up a few times w/ our users as well, so I am definitely interested in seeing what can be done.
I don't see any sort of pre-built tag to let you access this directly. To your point, I only found the general account editing / access link - not one directly to password reset.
Couple of questions / notes
I tried your option and while it works, I'm concerned by the redirect back to the account page. That seems to violate your requirements on hiding the account options info. When the user hits finish / cancel they're taken to the main "My Account" page.Have you considered securing the other activity spaces so they're not visible from the "My Account" page? Then you could use the built-in tags. Not ideal, I know, but if you're going to be routed back to that screen anyway once you finish/cancel your password change...Have you considered just writing the password reset funtionality into your app? I did this a while back and it was actually pretty simple. Then you can have complete control over the behavior.How I wrote password reset...
You know the userid in this case, so things are MUCH easier (no need to search to find the specific user)Assumption: users are stored in the plumtree database auth sourceUse the native API (com.plumtree.server). I don't know if you need to impersonate a full admin or not... my code doesGet a handle on the userReset the password with the "SetPassword" methodStore the changeSemi-functional code below - note how you'd never want to store your admin userid / password in here like this (or have it blank...)
'//create an admin connection Dim ptAdminSession As IPTSession = New Session ptAdminSession.Connect("administrator", "", Nothing)
Dim sNewPassword As String = ""
'//start user impersonation Dim ptUserSessionTemp As IPTSession = ptAdminSession.ImpersonateUser(iUserID)
'//open the user for editing Dim oUser As IPTUser = ptAdminSession.GetUsers().Open(iUserID, True)
'//reset the password oUser.SetPassword(sNewPassword)
'//mungle with server context Dim mySC As IPTServerContext = oUser.GetInterfaces("IPTServerContext") mySC.Store() mySC.UnlockObject()