Call NAB app from outside of portal

[Bruce.Wilson]

Helllo,
I setup a form app to save a users name, mobile number and Opt-in choice to comply with sending sms messages from email. I shared the link by email, but it requires the user to log into valence before they can display the form. How can I bypass the log-in requirement and just display the form? I think this was possible in the past.
Thanks.

[sean.lanktree]

You can pass "user" and "password" parameters on the URL to auto login. See the valence docs for more details.

[Bruce.Wilson]

So there isn't a way to setup an Apache statement that will go directly to the app? I think I did something like that in a previous version of Valence

[sean.lanktree]

Are you certain is was a "NAB" app that you did this with before? Maybe you coded your own application and did not "wrap" Portal security around it. NAB apps have Portal security embedded into them.

[Bruce.Wilson]

Hi Sean,
No it wasn't a NAB app. It was something I did with the autocode app, back when it was working. To make this work I ended up setting up a dummy user in the portal, that I limited to just that app. I really didn't want the user to get a login box, even if they couldn't see anything. Is passing a user and password in the open the only way to have a URL directly open an app? Are there any examples of how others handle this.?
Thanks,
Bruce

[sean.lanktree]

For a NAB app, that is the only way I can think of. Maybe we can look at adding something like a "login" hook program. At a minimum we need the login process to set a user profile (to honor object level authority to the back end objects) and setup the environment/library list for the calls to the back end.