[daisy] What defines the Daisy Home/place you land after login

[Vincent Mouton]

> > I sometimes am confused at what happens after a user logs in.
> Sometimes I do
> > land on the Daisy Home (or at least, the page that lists the
> available
> > sites). Sometimes I am redirected to one of the site's homepages.
> >
> > And the Daisy Home link, should that always lead you to the current
> site's
> > home, or is the same functionality applying as what happens after
> login?
> 
> Not sure what links you are talking about:
> 
>  * there's the 'site home' and 'daisy home' links, the 'daisy home'
> link
> brings you to the site index page.


Bruno,

I was actually talking about the 'daisy home' link.


> 
>  * the top-left logo is also linked to 'home', but in this case this is
> either the 'site home' or the 'daisy home' depending on whether the
> page
> you're currently on is within the context of a site.
> 
> Some confusion probably comes from the distinction between pages
> displayed within the context of a site, and those not displayed within
> the context of a site, such as the login, registration, etc.
> 
> >
> > 2 questions:
> > - what defines where one will land?
> 
> The 'returnTo' request parameter passed to the login page. If no
> returnTo parameter is specified, you will go to the site index page
> after login.


That's the one I needed. Thanks for the info.


> 
> The 'Login' link in the user menu is created in menu.xsl, and sets the
> returnTo parameter to the URL of the currently requested page. This
> only
> makes sense for GET requests, therefore the login link is only
> available
> on pages resulting from a GET request.
> 
> > - is there a way to define, according to user/role/... where one
> lands after
> > login,
> 
> You could generate a link to the login page with an appropriate
> returnTo
> parameter.
> 
> >  or what sites are shown in the list on the Daisy Home (e.g. everyone
> > in role Clown should not see the list of sites, but should go to the
> > Clown-site; everyone in role Circus should see both the Clown-site
> *and*
> > Acrobat-site)
> 
> The list of sites is filtered by leaving out those for which the user
> has no read access to the site home page.
> 


Obvious, and even better.

Thanks for the info again,
v



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