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DDRMenu - add custom token to URL (for SSO to other sites)

11/18/2011 6:28 PM

David Storfer

Joined: 11/17/2011

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DDRMenu - add custom token to URL (for SSO to other sites)

I'm wondering if DDRMenu will allow me to do this or will I need to code a custom menu module?

After I log my users into DNN, there will be a Single Sign On token placed in their profile. This will be a large guid-type value that will give them admission to other sites in our realm.

Use Case: I would like some (not all) of the URLs in the menu to have [SSO] added on the end when the navigation is created and then have DDRMenu replace that with the Profile's SSO token value. So if the user clicks on certain links in the menu they will be taken to another website (new window preferably) with that URL and auto logged in.

So when I am editing the navigation I would enter: http://www.myothersite.com?sso=[SSO]

which should render to: http://www.myothersite.com?sso=z9vGTs...

11/19/2011 5:33 AM

Armand Datema

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Re: DDRMenu - add custom token to URL (for SSO to other sites)

mm I dont know about that for sure if you look at the xml output for profile properties you can see that there are a bunch of proerties avaiable in hte menu ( which you could use )

http://www.dnngarden.com/XML-format.T...

I am not sure about custom profile properties though, but maybe you could put your sso somehere in one fo thee properties, would save you the hassle of writing a new module yourself

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11/19/2011 5:53 AM

Armand Datema

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Re: DDRMenu - add custom token to URL (for SSO to other sites)

At the moment you cannot get custom profile properties with the xsl tempaltes you could if you did razor templates though

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11/21/2011 12:59 PM

David Storfer

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Re: DDRMenu - add custom token to URL (for SSO to other sites)

I think I may have found another alternative --the NodeManipulator hook. You can add a custom assembly that implements this iNodeManipulator interface and it will pass out the entire list of nodes, which you can "manipulate" and then pass back.

I will probably try the Razor method first to avoid writing custom code. But this NodeManipulator might come in handy later for something and it's good to know it's there!

11/21/2011 5:35 PM

Armand Datema

Joined: 9/16/2003

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Re: DDRMenu - add custom token to URL (for SSO to other sites)

yeah there is also the nodemanipulator but I never realy tried that myself ( never had a project that needed it )

but do post an example of how you did it, dont think there is a nice simple example yet

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