[Carbon-dev] Notify the user when the session timeout occurs

[Sameera Jayasoma]

Hi Azeez,

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Afkham Azeez <azeez at wso2.com> wrote:

> Sameera,
> Wrapping all functions is not something which we could do. There should be
> some common code which checks this, perhaps in header.jsp or template.jsp
>

I understand your point. This common function was there in the UI framework
for more than one year. For the 1st part of this problem we can give a
platform-wide solution. But I am not sure how to solve the 2nd part. Will
meditate more on this and get back to you.

Thanks
Sameera

>
> Azeez
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Sameera Jayasoma <sameera at wso2.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Kasun/Azeez,
>>
>> We have a platform-wide solution for this issue. But it solves the 50% of
>> the problem. :) Let me explain.
>>
>> 1) When the session has timed out, if you click on menu item on the left
>> navigation bar, you will be redirected to sign-in page without any
>> notifications. We need to fix this part of the problem.
>>
>> 2) But if you are in the middle of a workflow, i.e. a component UI page,
>> you should get a notification saying "Your session has timed out. Please
>> login". This part is solved.
>>
>> In your UI component, please wrap each and every javascript function(which
>> talk to the backend) as illustrated below.
>>
>> function performInstallation(actionType) {
>>     *sessionAwareFunction(function() {*
>>             /// Your Javascript code
>>     *});*
>> }
>>
>> Component owners, please make sure that you've added this in your
>> Javascript functions.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sameera
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Afkham Azeez <azeez at wso2.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, this is a small usability improvement which will vastly improve the
>>> user experience. Any ideas how this could be done? Some sort of JavaScript
>>> magic?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Kasun Indrasiri <kasun at wso2.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In all the wso2 products, there aren't any notification given in the
>>>> management console when the session is time out. So a given user
>>>> will realize that his session is time out only when he interacts with the
>>>> Mgmt Console. (similar user experience @ [1]).
>>>>
>>>> IMO, we need to have this feature in management console of all carbon
>>>> based products.
>>>> WDYT?
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-4115
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
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