Problem in Using an URL in Exit Plug (NW 2004s SP12)

Question

Hi,
I have a Webdynpro application to specify the terms and conditions for the users when they login to the portal for the first time.
Upon Accepting the terms by the user, i used to loggoff the user and will redirect to the portal logon page again to relogin. (This was a requirment )
I was using an exit plug with the URL pointing to loggoff.jsp which invalidates the session and redirect to the portal login page again. This was working fine in NW 2004.
The code used to call the exit plug in the Window Interface view is,
<b>wdThis.wdGetTermsandConditionsWindowInterfaceViewController().wdFirePlugToPortal("/globalportal/web/logoff.jsp");</b>
When we upgarded into 2004s SP12 i am getting the folllowing error when firing the exit plug with the URL.
<b>"The Exit Plug can not use an URL when used in Portal, use Portal Navigation instead"</b>
We tried portal navigation as well, but seems that will work with PCD Objects only, where we need to redirect to the URL(logoff.jsp).
I tried the HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect() as well, but the control remains in the TermsandConditions view only.
<b>Code Used:
WebCallback  webcallback = new WebCallback();
HttpServletResponse response= webcallback.getResponse();
response.sendRedirect(URL);</b>
Please let me know if somebody faced this issue and the work around for this.
My requirement is that upon clicking on the Accept button, i need to logoff the user by calling logoff.jsp will be destroy
the session and redirect to portal login page.
Please let me know the work around to call the URL in the view.
Appreciate your reply.
Thanks and Regards,
Sekar

Answer 1

Hi
Try
WDClientUser.forceLogoffClientUser(null);
url - the URL of the page that is shown to the user after logoff was done. If the parameter is null, the redirect is done to the "LogoffURL" URL that can be specified in the application properties. If this URL is also not defined, a redirect to a Web Dynpro internal logoff page is done.
So you may either accept default logoff-page (just text "Web Dynpro application terminated. Good bye!" or provide your own page via application properties).
Next, it is impossible to just log-off to auth screen. It is necessary to set as log-off URL some application that requires authentication also.
This way WD will first log-off user, then shows auth-screen and then login him again to the target application.
So try the following:
In NW IDE open your application properties, and add standard property "log-off URL", for example "/useradmin/userAdminServlet?userProfileView";
Regards
Ayyapparaj