Portal User Login History

Question

I am looking for a way to create a procedure or use an api in order to return the last time a portal user logged in to their account. Any suggestions?
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Answer 1

I cannot think of any APIs in the PDK that will do this, but it is very simple to do via custom coding etc.
Create a table with a minimum of these base columns:
PORTAL_USERNAME
LAST_LOGIN_DATE
etc.
You could create a custom login or logout portlet which uses the WWSEC APIs and also reference a function that adds or updates a row in the above sample table. That way you can keep track of this information. If you use a custom portlet, remember to turn off your page links as appropriate so that there are no ways to escape using the custom portlet!
It is probably best to do it on the login process and people may not log out properly, i.e., close the browser which means you do not get an accurate picture of log in times.
You then can in your custom portlets/apps etc. do a check against this table to do simple things like 'Welcome back John' etc. etc.