Comments on: A Custom Message on the Signon Page (part 3)

By: Tipster

Tipster — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:49:31 +0000

I’m not sure how Wade solved it, but I’ve had a quick look this morning and in the version I’m using (Weblogic 10) it seems as though a little extra work is required to deal with caching. Graham Smith spotted it and has replied to part 4 of this blog post here:
http://peoplesofttipster.com/2007/11/14/a-custom-message-on-the-signon-page-part-4/#more-54

After applying this extra change it now works in more recent versions of Weblogic.

By: Chip

Chip — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:55:13 +0000

How/where did you change the cache settings to get the message of the day to work? I’m having the same prob (we’re using weblogic 9.2)

By: Wade Burns

Wade Burns — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:18:43 +0000

Thanks for the response…should’ve let you all know that I figured out that it is the caching on the server setup that was the issue. Once I got that figured out, the message worked as advertised.

By: Tipster

Tipster — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:15:58 +0000

It is supposed to allow you to update the message and the changes to appear without rebooting or cache clearing.

It might be worth installing Firebug to see what the Web Server is sending …

By: Wade Burns

Wade Burns — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:11:38 +0000

I’ve been spending some time working with this code in a test environment and have a somewhat working version. I’m curious if anyone knows how I can simply change the message file and have it picked up and displayed without having to bounce the web server? I assume it is something with how the web server is handling the cache?

By: PeopleSoft Tipster

PeopleSoft Tipster — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:06:24 +0000

Good stuff, thanks for popping by Jeremy. Your code looks like a better version than the one I finished with, so that’s a valuable contribution. I like the idea of an update page within PeopleSoft too.

By: Jeremy C. Radwan

Jeremy C. Radwan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:01:30 +0000

Ooops, I see you already came up with a cross-browser solution in Part 4.

By: Jeremy C. Radwan

Jeremy C. Radwan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:57:04 +0000

Hi! I stumbled across your blog posting while doing some Googling of myself.

I wanted to let you know that I have since modified my signin page code to work on both IE and Firefox. The new function looks like this:

function include(url)
{
   var xml = (typeof window.ActiveXObject != 'undefined')
              ? new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
              : new XMLHttpRequest();

   if (xml !=null) {
      xml.open( "GET", url, false );
      xml.send(null);
      document.writeln(xml.responseText); 
   }
}

Then do the include as normal in the location where you want the message:

include("http://mysite/psoft/my_system_msg.html");

I also designed a quick page in PeopleTools so I could update the system message from within PeopleSoft instead of editing the .html file on the web server directly (this also allowed me to grant permissions on the component to let other specific users change the message).

By: PeopleSoft Tipster

PeopleSoft Tipster — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:31:59 +0000

Comment from Joe Ngo from the Chillijoe website:

Actually, there’s no need to confine your technique to IE users. What you have demonstrated is simply the basic IE-specific form of what is now well-known as ajax. Almost all modern browsers already support XMLHttpRequest (the feature that drove the growth of ajax).

The include() function from your post could be easily modified to be cross-browser. See this article for a primer:
http://www.jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html