topic Logout trigger by URL in Alfresco Archive

Logout trigger by URL

simon — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:54:15 GMT

Hi,Is it possible to trigger a logout for the current user in a Freemarker template? Don't want to make anything complicated, only triggering the logout like the link in the web client. Tried to copy the form from the webclient but it's probably a little more complicated as this.Can this be done?

Re: Logout trigger by URL

gavinc — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:21:47 GMT

It can't be done out-of-the-box but it should be fairly easy to achieve with some Java coding.

You'll need to write a small servlet that can get access to the LoginBean and call the logout method.

You'll need to get hold of a FacesContext object in the servlet, retrieve the bean and call the method. A similar thing is done in ExternalAccessServlet, you can use this as a guide.

Then from your freemarker script you can just add a link to the servlet.

Hope that helps.

Re: Logout trigger by URL

kevinr — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:51:43 GMT

Yes it can. There is a special servlet for a few specific things like browse, space details, document details and also logout.

The form of the URL is:
http://<server>/alfresco/navigate/logout

See the ExternalAccessServlet wiki docs for more info.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: Logout trigger by URL

gavinc — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:10:42 GMT

Ahh, there you go I learnt something too

Re: Logout trigger by URL

simon — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:10:00 GMT

Thanks guys! I'm sorry Gavin but Kevins answer looks nicer… Tested it and it works, great.