Problem creating login page in portal webapplication

Question

Hi all,
I have been working with ADF for quite some years. Now, I have found webcenter portal on my path.
I'm telling you this is square one all over again.......trying to figure out why the most simple things do not work like they should. like this one
I'm on a project that has to build a new portal application. when you start it, you should be taken to a page where you have to log in.
This is the only public page in the portal app. after logging in, you will see the start page of the portal app. From here you can go to other pages through a menu tree on the left side of the page (=within the page template).
Anyway, I seem to no even get this to work........
I have made two pages. a loginPage and a landingPage. I know you get a login.jspx and a home.jspx for free, but I want to make my own since I had problems attaching my custom pagetemplate. Some other thing that doesn't work........
Anyway, I have made these two pages within the faces-config.xml I have tied the login_success action to my landingPage and the logout_success to the loginPage. I have also altered the login.html to redirect to my loginPage.jspx instead of the login.jspx On the loginPage Ideally, I would like to drag a login taskflow with a page-fragment where I have two inputfields and a button, which are connected to the o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean. But that is for later, since it doesn't even work when I have put those two inputfields and button directly on my loginPage.jspx
I have tried several different configurations using both the pages.xml file and the jazn-data.xml, but to no avail.
What am I doing wrong? in the pages.xml, what should be the one with home as it's id? should both the loginPage and the landingPage be in there?
Even when I manage to get the loginPage first at startup, the button (who's action is pointing to the doLogin of the o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean) does nothing. Also nothing in the logs.
Can anyone please tell me how I can get this to work?
thanks a lot in advance.....

Answer 1

Hi fisherman,
custom login page can be created and it can be used in your custom template by simply creating your own login class :o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean instead of using the default one.
otherwise the second type of solution is :
create a subform and write the following type of code in your jspx/jsff page.
<af:subform id="sub_id">
<af:panelFormLayout id="pt_pfl1" >
<af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl1" layout="vertical" >
<table>
<tr>
<td width="50%">
<af:activeOutputText value="username"
id="aot199"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">
<af:inputText id="pt_it1" simple="true"
value="#{o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean.userName}"
/>
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td width="50%">
<af:activeOutputText value="password"
id="aot198"/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">
<af:inputText id="pt_it2" simple="true"
value="#{o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean.password}"
columns="30" secret="true"
/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</af:panelGroupLayout>
</af:panelFormLayout>
<af:spacer width="3" height="3" id="pt_s2"/>
<af:panelGroupLayout id="pt_pgl14" layout="horizontal" halign="end" >
<af:commandButton id="pt_logincb"
action="#{o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean.doLogin}"
>
</af:commandButton>
this is a sample code,may be some errors are present.but it should work definity if you mention the login success page in faces-config.xml.
Hope ,it will help you.
Regards,
Hoque