Logging Into connectDaily
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Here are some things to check:
- Ensure you entered the User ID and password correctly. Depending upon your database, they may be case-sensitive. For example, dog is not the same as DOG or dOg. For the hosted version of connectDaily, both user name and password are case sensitive.
- Ensure that you have Javascript support enabled in your browser.
- Ensure that your browser has cookies enabled. connectDaily uses Session Cookies, which last the duration of your login. No other identifiable information is stored.
- For IE, choose TOOLS | INTERNET OPTIONS | PRIVACY. Ensure the policy is set to Medium High or lower.
- For Mozilla, ensure that you at least accept and send cookies to and from the originating website.
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Your system administrator, after installing the calendar software, will provide you the URL with which to login to the Calendar system.
Calendars Hosted by MH Software
The URL will be:
http://yourdomain.mhsoftware.com/login.html
Use the User name and password you received when you signed up for the online calendar.
Calendar Software Installed on Your Server:
Generally the URL will be something like:
http://www.mydomain.com/calendar/login.html
When the software is installed, a default User ID of Admin with a default password of Admin is created. Use this User ID and Password the first time you login to the system. Once you login, change the Admin password to something secure.
Advanced
If you are a web designer, you can provide links to the calendar that specify what page is displayed when the User logs in. For example, you can create a link like:
http://hostname/calendar/login.html?target=ViewGantt.html&resource_id=3
Once the User enters the password and User name, they would be re-directed to the ViewGantt.html page with the resource_id of 3 passed as an argument. You can also transparently log Users into the Calendar. For information on how to do this, refer to the FAQ:
How can I transparently log people into the Calendar?
There are three ways to do this:
- Use container authentication/Windows Integrated Authentication. The container (web server) and the browser will transparently log the user in with no action. Container security configuration is documented here.
- If you have an existing web application or other system the user is authenticated to, you can use Cookie Signon authentication for single-signon. Cookie based single signon is documented here.
- You can use plain text passwords. See below for information on how to do this.
Plain Text Password Configuration
We don't recommend this because the password may be logged in the server's access or transfer logs.
Create your link in the form:
http://hostname/CALENDAR_PATH/login.html?txtUserID=USER_NAME&txtPassword=PASSWORD&btnSubmit=Login
For hosted Users the CALENDAR_PATH portion would not be present. The URL would be something like:
https://calendar.yourdomain.com/login.html?txtUserID=USER_NAME&txtPassword=PASSWORD&btnSubmit=Login&target=ViewCal.html&calendar_id=11
Replace the USER_NAME value with the name of the User you would like to have the person be logged in under.
Replace the PASSWORD value with the password for the User account you are logging in with.
The page specified by target will be invoked and all parameters not relating to login will be passed as part of the request.
See Also: Calendar Display Arguments, Single Signon Authentication