Comments on: A Custom Message on the Signon Page (part 4)

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:15:02 +0000

Thanks Dear, I tested all your solutions related to this subjet and they worked for my environment.

By: Mo

Mo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:35:54 +0000

I am getting a permission denied error on xmlhttp.open(“head”,url,true)

By: RDX

RDX — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:48:36 +0000

Hi,
I found the Blog very interesting, However I want someone to help me out with this.
This is PT 8.46.00
I am done with the changes above.
I do not see any message appearing on my login page
The onload function does not seem to call the include function
Error “Object expected” It seems to be the java script error
MOTD.html gets displayed by http://:portno/MOTD.html
However the onload function does not seem to pick it.

Regards

RDXHHH

By: PeopleSoft Tipster

PeopleSoft Tipster — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:08:26 +0000

What appears to be a better version of the code has been posted by Jeremy Radwan in a comment on Part3, which can be found here:
http://peoplesofttipster.com/2007/11/09/a-custom-message-on-the-signon-page-part-3/#comment-644

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:00:29 +0000

Looks like this blog sofwtare is removing my xml so I have reposted using square brackets instead of angled.

In tools 8.49 weblogic.xml contains a [container-descriptor] directive for reloading servlets but NOT for reloading static resources.

Simply add in the following tag inside the to have weblogic check for changes in cached static html files.

[resource-reload-check-secs]0[/resource-reload-check-secs]

Graham

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:57:16 +0000

In tools 8.49 weblogic.xml contains a directive for reloading servlets but NOT for reloading static resources.

Simply add in the following tag inside the to have weblogic check for changes in cached static html files.

Graham

By: Jim Marion

Jim Marion — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:03:19 +0000

Using Ajax on the signon template is a very clever idea.

I’m not sure why this solution would work any differently on PT 8.48 or PT 8.49. What you are serving is plain HTML, and web servers are pretty good at that. I think what I would do, just to verify that everything is downloading, is use the Firebug plugin with Firefox so you can see the XHR response. If you don’t see the contents of your entire MTD.html in the Net tab of Firebug, then you will know that Weblogic is not serving the entire file.

You might want to look at jQuery for your ajax implementation. I find it to be much easier to work with than writing and maintaining my own Ajax functions. If you minify it and use a GZip servlet filter, the jQuery library download size is only a couple K. Using jQuery, you can also animate the message after it is loaded, for example, fadeIn, etc.

Another alternative is to enable public signon in your web profile and add the signon pagelet and an MTD pagelet to the Guest homepage tab.