Customizing the Sign Out Window

How to:

When a user signs out of a view in Dashboard, the user is redirected to the Sign In page by default. The Sign Out window can be customized to direct users to another page within Dashboard or a web page outside of Dashboard. For example, when a user clicks the Sign Out link in the Dashboard banner, you can have your company web site open. This functionality can be set for specific views using the View Builder or set globally for all views by editing a parameter in the WebFOCUS Administration Console. Sign out configurations on a per view basis take precedence over global sign out configurations.


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Procedure: How to Customize the Sign Out Window for Specific Views

Administrators and Group Administrators have the ability to redirect users of a specific public or group view to a different URL upon sign out.

  1. Log on to the Dashboard View Builder and select a view.
  2. Click Edit Settings. The View Settings dialog box opens.
  3. Click the down arrow to the left of Redirects located in the lower-left corner of the View Settings dialog box. The Redirects area of the dialog box appears.
  4. Click the down arrow to the left of Redirect Summary.
  5. Select context-redirect or x-redirect from the Redirect context type drop-down list, then type the desired URL in the Redirect URL field.
    • The context-redirect option is the default setting and is used to add additional segments to the default redirect URL to redirect a user to a different URL inside the application context upon sign out. The default URL redirects a user to the Sign In page, which is:
      http://hostname[:port]/ibi_apps/signin.jsp

      This is based on the global Sign Out Redirect URL setting in the WebFOCUS Administration Console.

      To redirect a user to the Group View Sign In page for the aa_gbv group view, select the context-redirect option and set the Redirect URL field to:

      /bid/aa_gbv
    • The x-redirect option is used to redirect a user to a fully qualified URL outside the application upon sign out. For example, to redirect a user to the IBI web site upon sign out, select the x-redirect option and set the Redirect URL field to:
      http://www.informationbuilders.com

    If the Redirect URL field is left blank, the user is redirected to the Sign In page upon sign out by default.

  6. Click Save Settings, then click Close.

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Procedure: How to Customize the Sign Out Window for All Views
  1. From the Administration menu, select Administration Console.

    The Administration Console opens.

  2. From the navigation pane, click Configuration.
  3. Under Application Settings, click Security.

    The Application Settings - Security pane opens, as shown in the following image.

  4. In the IBI_Signout_Redirect_URL field, enter a valid relative URL or fully qualified URL.

    For example:

    To redirect a user to the Group View Sign In page for the aa_gbv group view, input the relative URL field below:

    /bid/aa_gbv

    To redirect users to a fully qualified URL outside the application, such as the IBI web site, input the fully qualified URL below:

    http://www.informationbuilders.com

    By default, all users are redirected to the WebFOCUS Sign In page upon sign out.

  5. Click Save and restart the Application Server.

Note: The IBI_Signout_Redirect_URL is a global parameter that applies to all WebFOCUS product components.


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