Enabling the Account Sign On Utility

This chapter provides an overview of the Account Sign On utility and discusses how to create and maintain sign-in data.

Click to jump to parent topicUnderstanding the Account Sign On Utility

Portal users might need to access other websites, such as external email accounts or news sites that require additional user IDs and passwords. To enable a seamless transition from the portal to the external site, PeopleSoft Applications Portal can bypass external login screens by using URL sign-in functionality.

Note. This feature works only for sites that use simple POST sign on forms. It does not work for sites that perform special encryption of sign on credentials or use any advanced sign on methodology.

Sites that require their own user IDs and passwords display information requests in their source code. You can view this source code, determine the information is needed, and register that information in the portal. Once users sign on to the site, the portal can store their passwords and user IDs so that they don't need to sign on again to access the external site from within the portal.

Using the Account Sign On utility to connect to websites with built-in frame breakers (such as My Oracle Support) does not work using the standard default frame template. For these types of websites, you can select the No Template option on the Content Ref Administration page for the entry generated by the Account Sign On utility. This forces the website to open without the portal wrapper, and the Account Sign On utility then logs in automatically.

Note. Selecting the No Template option on the CREF may require that you restart your application server and web server after stopping them and clearing their respective caches.

Click to jump to parent topicCreating and Maintaining Signon Data

This section discusses how to use the Account Sign On Utility component (EO_PE_EXT_SIGNIN) and Edit Account Sign On component (EO_PE_EXT_USRIDPWD) to:

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicPages Used to Create and Maintain Signon Data

Page Name

Definition Name

Navigation

Usage

Account Sign On Utility

EO_PE_EXT_URL_ADMN

Portal Administration, Account Sign On, Account Sign On Utility

Create seamless links to external websites that require user IDs and passwords. Register external URLs within the portal registry.

Add Account Sign On Information for the Site

EO_PE_EXT_USR_ADMN

Page appears the first time a user uses the portal to access an external URL with registered account signon information.

Enter your user ID and password the first time that you use the portal to access an external URL with registered account signon information.

These values are used to automatically authenticate access when you access the site from the portal in the future.

Use the Edit Account Sign On page to edit your user ID and password information.

Edit Account Sign On

EO_PE_EXT_USRIDPWD

  • Portal Administration, Account Sign On, Edit Account Sign On

  • My Account Sign On

When a portal administrator accesses this page from the Edit Account Sign On menu link, this page is ideal resetting user passwords to external sites registered using the account signon utility.

When accessed from the My Account Sign On link, this page can be used to update your own account signon data for external sites you have registered using the account signon utility.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicExtracting URL Sign On Information

To extract the URL sign on information:

  1. Determine the field names and values the external site uses for authentication.

    1. Examine the signon page for the site by viewing the HTML source from a browser.

    2. Determine whether the site uses a simple POST authorization form for signon.

      If it does not, you cannot use this feature with this site.

    3. Search the authorization form and make a note of the input parameter names that are needed for authentication.

      If the site uses additional parameters, beyond user ID and password fields, make a note of those parameters and values.

  2. Enter the data from step 1c into the Account Sign On Utility page.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicCreating Seamless Links to External Web Sites

Access the Account Sign On Utility page (Portal Administration, Account Sign On, Account Sign On Utility).

URL

Enter the URL to the external site's sign on page.

Menu Label

Displays as the link text used to access the site.

User Field Name

Enter the user ID field name as displayed in the external website's code.

Pwd Field Name (password field name)

Enter the password field name as displayed in the external website's code.

Additional Form Fields and Values

Order

Displays the order in which any necessary field names and values are passed to the external website.

Field Name

Enter each field name for which a field value is required by the external site.

Field Value

Enter each field value that is required by the external site.

Register and Save URL

Menu Folder

Enter the name of the menu folder in which you want the link to the external site to appear.

Creation Date, Updated by, and Updated on

These fields display information once the URL is registered.

Registered

Displays as selected once the URL is registered.

Register URL

Click to register the URL in the portal registry.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicManaging User Account Sign On Entries

Access the Edit Account Sign On page (Portal Administration, Account Sign On, Edit Account Sign On).

Enter user ID and password information to be used to access the external sites registered using the account signon utility.