Log in to Checkbox from another application

[richardt]

Hi,

In our scenario, we have the checkbox server sitting at one website, and another website that handles the registration and survey allocation side of things.

We want the user to click on a survey in our website, and be taken to the survey in checkbox, without having to log in again.

The user accounts (username & password) are the same in our site and the checkbox site (as we use the webservice to create the checkbox user upon registration in our site).

When we were looking into purchasing the software, the salesman indicated that there is a way I can control the login from our software. Could you please let me know how to acheive this?

Thanks

Richard

[ncushing]

Richard,

Thank you for your inquiry. What you wish to accomplish should be pretty straightforward since you already created users in the Checkbox database.

The ckbx_Credential table of the database contains a Guid field that can be passed to the survey page along with the survey guid. To create a link that automatically logs the user in, copy the survey link from the Activation page of the survey editor and append &userGuid=[USER_GUID] where [USER_GUID] is the value from the ckbx_Credential table that corresponds to the user you wish to login.

-Noah

[richardt]

That sounds ideal, thanks!

Is there a way I can get the userGUID value via the webservice?

[richardt]

Actually, I found it ok - I can get it from a call to GetUserProfile().

Thanks for your help.