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How does a non-globeadmin user change their own password?

I am using nubuilder-v2.7.4.11-12.10.24-Build529 on Ubuntu 12.10 browsing with Chromium 22.0.1229.94.

What is the standard way to enable a user to change their own password? Do I have to setup all the bits to enable them access to the Users form, but only for the current user? Is there a recipe for this? Or am I missing something?

tschutter,

There is no facility at this point, you could create your own or make it the admin's job.

http://forums.nubuilder.cloud/viewtopic.p ... 061#p11061

Steven

tschutter,

You could create a new form with sql Add In the custom code of the form: Set 2 textfields on that form sus_name(read only) and sus_login_password

Now the user can update his own password.

Johan

Johan-

I'm trying to implement this.

Which sub-tab of Custom Code would this go in?


"After Save"?

Has anyone else successfully done this?

Many thanks!

mlgeek,

One option would be to make a form (example for zzsys_variable- It does not matter)
make one text field ..name it password_holder

add After Save: Make a button and on the Button properties set 'Form To Launch via Browse' the form u made, and set 'Record ID' -1 (impotant).
Give the user access to the button.
Now a user can change his password.

This is a general idea ..u should play around with md5 like johan mentioned, and maybe add a second field just to check that the user are entering the same value twice

zazzium

Cool. Thanks, Zazzium- much appreciated.

Solved, I think.

I ended up doing what johan had suggested. It is worth noting, though, that what he suggested was essentially making a copy of the existing USERS form (a set-up form that is not, by default, available to edit in-browser.

In hopes that this is useful to someone else:

• Created new Form, change_password
  

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  SELECT * FROM zzsys_user
  WHERE zzsys_user_id='#zzsys_user_id#'

• Created needed fields:
  
• Set sus_login_password_was to never display:
  
• Set sus_name and sus_login_name to read-only on the Text tab for each field.
• In the form's Custom Code tab, used johan's template in After Save
  

  Code: Select all

  if('#sus_login_password_was#' != '#sus_login_password#'){
     $s = "update zzsys_user set sus_login_password = md5(CONCAT('nu',sus_login_password)) ";
     $s .= "WHERE zzsys_user_id = '#newID#'";
     nuRunQuery($s);
  
  }

• Created index button for "Change Your Password" that launches this new form.

One remaining problem:

I had hoped that the user would be able to skip the Browse/Search screen and go straight to the record edit screen if I specified the Record ID for the button as #zzsys_user_id#, but that doesn't seem to work- it results in an edit screen that shows all fields as blank. I suspect I'm doing something very stupid here, though, and that I'll kick myself when I figure it out.

I had hoped that the user would be able to skip the Browse/Search screen and go straight to the record edit screen

My suggestion is doing exactly that

Thanks Zazzium, that trick of yours is gonna come in really handy!

hi,

That's nice. What a little idea can do...

Johan