additional web app using able authentication

[mike92117]

I am designing a separate web app (ASP.NET MVC) to provide a support portal for my customers. This will allow them to ask questions that get persisted to a custom tables in the commerce database. I may well use it later on for FAQ conlib control. The user will select the product for which they have a question, ask the question and then submit it. The app will submit that question to the appropriate support person for the vendor of the product. The support person will answer the question, it will be saved in the database and the customer will be notified.

So here is my question: is there a way I can harness the same user authentication of the shopping cart so that the user will be able to have a single sign on for both the ablecommerce web app and my support web app?

[mazhar]

In ablecommerce you can create a small webservice to authenticate using ablecommerce API. Then in your custom app you can implement authentication providers which in turn call webservice to for authentication. Then you can update web forms authentication configuration for your new app to use same cookie name we issue in gold. This should get the single signon working.

[mike92117]

Yea - a webservice is a good solution.

For what it's worth, I was able to authenticate by adding (to my app) references to the CommerceBuilder, NHibernate and NHibernate.Caches.SysCache assemblies, then adding nhibernate and log4net config files. But a web service is a smarter approach. Thanks.

[bkort@web2market.com]

Web 2 Market announces a new Able Commerce Plugin! Answer prospective customer questions and build product details. A simple form allows visitors to submit a question, which an admin can answer. For more information, check this out:

http://store.web2market.com/Questions-A ... -P220.aspx

[Katie]

Looks good Brad.

Would you mind adding another post, about your new plug-in, to the 3rd-party Marketplace forum?

viewforum.php?f=25

Thanks!
Katie