Stellent Site Studio Website Session Management

Hi,
We are using Stellent Content Server 7.5.2, as well as the corresponding Site Studio Designer/Contributor component. I heard that there is no session management capability via Site Studio. In other words, we cannot_ retrieve user information from an outside source such as LDAP, upon first entry to the website, and maintain that information in session variables during the entire session that the user remains on the site.
Is this true? And, if so, has anyone found a work around to this issue?
Thanks in advance for any input.
Elle

Those options aren't available from the Manage Site page, they are only available in the Designer IDE.
If you want those options to automatically apply you can create your own "Manage Site" page by dropping the SiteStudioManager fragment onto a page in your website. Then link the fragment to a Manager Settings file. Edit the Manager Settings so that it applies the defaults & settings you require.
Alternatively a "Design" mode is available on the website. It's activated in the Designer IDE site Properties - specify Design Mode Role. When these users go into Contribution Mode they can switch to Design Mode.

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Thanks for the replies, but I have found the answers to all of the questions, i will put them here for others as well ...
Q1. Is there any service or CIS API to call page template? I have seen the page holder service, but don't know if there is any for page template.
Nope, there is no service to call Page template.
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Q3. Now suppose if I am able to get all the required content using either the place holder or page template service call. Now I am displaying it to the user as an
embedded content inside my other Java based website. Can I still do the Cntrl+Shift+F5 and call it in the contributor mode? If I am not, is there any way to achieve it? Because my contributors want to contribute while seeing the whole website and not just the embedded page template.
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placeholder service, and begin edit session service, obviously there are many of them (you can see in <UCM>\CS\custom\SiteStudio\resources\ss_services.htm), but for CIS integration these are the useful one's.
Edited by: Rupal Chawla on 29-Sep-2009 22:44

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