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Siteminder SSO not showing company home folder

msj4u — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 07:20:51 GMT

Hi,I integrated Siteminder SSO with my application to seamlessly login to alfresco web-client.It works great but the problem is that when i am logged in from the normal login process from the login page company home folder is shown to the userBut when i am logging in from the following code it is no

Re: Siteminder SSO not showing company home folder

mitpatoliya — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 06:51:30 GMT

During Out of box login process Alfresco load the User Preferences of user after authentication and lookout for the start location set by that user.(you can set start location from user profile page)


 public String getStartLocation()
   {
      String location = (String)PreferencesService.getPreferences().getValue(PREF_STARTLOCATION);
      if (location == null)
      {
         // default to value from client config
         location = Application.getClientConfig(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()).getInitialLocation();
      }
      return location;
   }
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Once it find that location alfresco use that value to display initial page.
There are navigation rules defined based on the string return by start location which will redirect you to particular page on login.

Re: Siteminder SSO not showing company home folder

msj4u — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 07:21:10 GMT

Thanks for the reply;

I set the home location = Company Home from the profile; but when i did the SSO/Siteminder login/out of the box login; it again (re)set my start location to My Home

any other ideas

Re: Siteminder SSO not showing company home folder

mitpatoliya — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:16:51 GMT

What I mean to say is if you set your default location as company home each time you login with OOTB page it will lead you to companyhome.
But if you are logging in though the SSO it will not as you need to manage that thing explicitly in your code and as your java class does not have JSF context it will be difficult to manage redirection on login.

Re: Siteminder SSO not showing company home folder

afaust — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:40:47 GMT

Hello,

as a general note: DO NOT implement your own filter, rather reuse what Alfresco already supports - namely an external authentication system that you can plug into. Simply create a new class that implements the interface "RemoteUserMapper", put your logic in its getRemoteUser(HttpServletRequest) method, re-configure the bean in your <configRoot>/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/external/externalXY/external-filter-context.xml (with bean id = "remoteUserMapper") and add "externalXY:external" to your authentication chain.
With this approach, everything else should be gracefully handled by Alfresco without you having to re-implement so much of the standard logic.

Regards
Axel

Re: Siteminder SSO not showing company home folder

mitpatoliya — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 06:01:42 GMT

Agree with Axel,
You may run in to another issue after getting rid of this one. So batter to follow the approach suggested by Axel.

Re: Siteminder SSO not showing company home folder

msj4u — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 08:22:52 GMT

uh

actually i was providing username in upper case like 'user1@TENANT1' and alfresco was expecting 'user1@tenant1'

and it worked fine

Re: Siteminder SSO not showing company home folder

vsilvestri — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:31:10 GMT

Hi msj4u,

Have you had any issues using the "edit online" feature within Share when integrated with Siteminder? I'm using Office 2010 and when I click Edit Online the document loads but just comes up blank. Curious if you've seen that issue as well. Thanks!