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Forward Internal Users to the Admin Homepage Upon Login

Monday, August 01, 2011 by Administrator

You may wish to have sales people, support people, and the manager user automatically forwarded to a page in the admin after they click login, rather than going to the My Account page first.

To do this, edit the "login webflow" and assign the web flow to the account type "internal"

To edit the login webflow, login to the admin as manager or a super user. Click Layout > Web Flow

On the web flow list screen select "Login" from the dropdown menu and then click the "New" icon

For the Source page field enter "common/accounts/login.aspx" Note there is no preceding slash yet the text is referring to a site root relative location.

For the Next page field enter "admin/focus/today.aspx" to forward users to the Today screen that lists activities for today.

Choose "Internal" for the account type. In this way, only those users that belong to the Internal Account will be forwarded and all other users will still be forwarded to the My Account screen or shipping screen if they are in the process of checking out.

Click Save

Logout as manager and log back in. Instead of seeing the My Account screen, you should be forwarded to the Today page of the admin.

As you can see, it's possible to change the value for the Next field to be any page you like. Perhaps you want to send internal users to the Sales View page, that would be "admin/focus/sales.aspx"

Ticking the Secure checkbox will attempt to forward to the https version of the page and does not encrypt the data for the actual login. If you want a secure login you will need to set the link to login.aspx to use https. After doing so, the entire session will be within https unless another link specifically points to http. You will also need an SSL certificate enabled on the web server to do any https.

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