Launching a WCC Application Using an External Login

If there is a user already authenticated, you can launch a WCC application in the context of that HTTP session by including “?externalLogin=true” in the URL.

For example:

http://Austin:8080/accounts/accounts.html?externalLogin=true

The application is initialized with the user name for the authenticated HTTP session.

An example of doing this is provided in the wccLoginManagedHub sample application—see the Using WCC Components in Mash-ups.

Also see the authenticationMode configuration parameter, which works in conjunction with the URL override described above — see Authentication Mode.

Note: Openspace and Workspace (as well as custom WCC applications) can be configured to allow dual authentication, meaning that the application concurrently supports both direct authentication and SSO authentication. When configured for dual authentication, users can log in using direct authentication, even if ActiveMatrix BPM is configured to use SSO authentication.

For additional information about dual authentication, see Dual Authentication.