Applications that autorefresh

[Paul Hethmon]

On 7/16/12 8:38 PM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

>>
>>To deal with this issue, I key on the login context in my custom login
>>handler and when I find it missing I direct the user to a page that
>>either
>>gives them a choice of where to go or the "default" application
>>automatically. In most of my use cases, that ends up being the right
>>choice the user wants anyway.
>
>You mean literally linking them back to the SP to start the cycle over?
>
>That wouldn't really work in campus cases, I don't think you have any idea
>which of the N>100 SPs it is.
>
>Maybe if one tracked Referer in a cookie or something.

No, in my use cases, I really have one main application, the real estate
agents MLS system, while they may have access to another half dozen or two
dozen, that one application is 95% of their time. So if I send them there,
it mostly works.

It really is a very different use case from the higher education world.
But I think the idea is reasonable; detect that the user doesn't have a
valid login context and do something for them. It might just direct them
to a big page of links, but even that is better than an ugly error message
they don't understand.

thanks,

Paul