Best Method for setting up a time-defined logout function.

Question

Greetings,
I'm attempting to setup an application that is only valid between certain hours of the day. I'm able to setup a test to verify that I'm within that time frame, but I'm not sure exactly where to put this pl/sql procedure to check to see if it's within a preset time frame.
I've placed the application within the specific page and it works fine, but as it needs to be pretty much application wide, should I put it on page zero (which I believe is executed every time) or should I setup an application level process. I've tried the application level process way, but just get thrown into an infinite loop.
Here is the snippet of code that is doing the test and the forced logout procedure
declare
  begintime date := to_date('11:27','HH24:MI');
  endtime   date := to_date('17:00','HH24:MI');
BEGIN
  IF to_char(sysdate,'HH24:MI') >= to_char(begintime,'HH24:MI') THEN
    wwv_flow_custom_auth_std.logout(p_this_flow=>v('APP_ID'),p_next_flow_page_sess=>v('APP_ID')||':101');
    wwv_flow.g_unrecoverable_error := true;   end if;
END;Is this method OK for doing what I want to do, and where should I place this function. Is there a way of setting it up as an application level process without it going into
an infinite loop.
Thanks in Advance,
Cliff Moon
UTPA Webmaster
Message was edited by:
cjmoon

Answer 1

Cliff - I don't understand your date logic but if you get that part working, I'd recommend using the authentication scheme's Session Verification Function attribute. Put logic in there that returns false if it's not okay to be running the application at the current time (this is executed for each page view.) Otherwise the function must return true. Then the engine will redirect to the login page (and I believe the function won't run there).
Scott