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Thursday, December 6, 2012PrintSubscribe
“Page Orientation” Property

When a report is created from a view that has more than seven fields, the report is rendered with landscape orientation, such as the example shown below. When a report has less than seven fields, the report is rendered in portrait orientation.

Report created from 'Customers' grid view oriented as landscape.

The report orientation can also be forced to render portrait or landscape by using the “Page Orientation” property.

Let’s change the Customers report displayed above to be presented in portrait orientation.

Start the Project Designer. In the Project Explorer, switch to the Controllers tab. Double-click on Customers / Views / grid1 node.

View 'grid1' of Customers controller.

Change the following:

Property New Value
Page Orientation Portrait

Press OK to save. On the toolbar, press Browse.

Navigate to the Customers page. On the action bar, press Report | PDF Document.

Printing a PDF Report from Customers grid view.

Open the PDF file that was saved to your hard drive. The report will be in portrait orientation.

Report created from 'Customers' grid view oriented as portrait.

Thursday, December 6, 2012PrintSubscribe
“Report Label” Property

The “Report Label” property allows specifying the header text displayed at the top of a report.

By default, the name of the controller will be displayed. The picture below shows the default header text of a report created from Customers “grid1” view.

Customers report with default header text of 'Customers' at the top of the page.

Let’s change the label of the report.

Start the Project Designer. In the Project Explorer, switch to the Controllers tab. Double-click on Customers / Views / grid1 node.

View 'grid1' of Customers controller.

Change the following:

Property New Value
Report Label List of Customers

Press OK to save. On the toolbar, press Browse.

Navigate to the Customers page. On the action bar, press Report | PDF Document.

Printing a PDF Report from Customers grid view.

Open the PDF file that was downloaded to your hard drive. The report will have the specified text displayed at the top of the page.

Customers report with customized header text of 'Report of All Customers' at the top of the page.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012PrintSubscribe
Advanced Membership Provider for Oracle Server

Requirements

An advanced membership and role provider requires three tables.

One table keeps track of user information. This information includes the user_name, email, and comments. Additional columns allow for implementation of a password question and answer in order to recover a forgotten password. When users are created, they can not be approved by default. Additional information is captured about the most recent login, activity, and change of password. When a user inputs an incorrect password past the limit, the user will become locked out. The number of failed attempts and most recent failed attempt will be stored.

Two tables are required to keep track of roles and associations of users with roles.

"Users", "Roles", and "User_Roles" table diagram for Advanced Membership Provider in Oracle.

These are the advanced membership and role provider tables with “identity” primary keys.

SQL:

create sequence users_seq;

create table 
users
(
    user_id 
int not null primary key,
    user_name varchar2(128) not null,
    password varchar2(128) not null,
    email varchar2(128),
    comments nclob,
    password_question varchar2(256),
    password_answer varchar2(128),
    is_approved number(1,0) check (is_approved in (1,0)) not null,
    last_activity_date date not null,
    last_login_date date not null,
    last_password_changed_date date not null,
    creation_date date not null,
    is_locked_out number(1,0) check(is_locked_out in (1,0)) not null,
    last_locked_out_date date not null,
    pwd_attempt_count int not null,
    pwd_attempt_window_start date not null,
    pwd_ans_attempt_count int not null,
    pwd_ans_attempt_window_start date not null
);

create or replace trigger 
users_trigger
    before 
insert
    on 
users
   
for each 
row
declare

    u_id users.user_id%type;
begin
    select users_id_seq.nextval into u_id from dual;
    :new.user_id := u_id;
end users_trigger;
/

create 
sequence roles_seq;

create table 
roles
(
    role_id 
int not null primary key,
    role_name varchar2(50
)
)
;

create or replace trigger 
roles_trigger
    before 
insert
    on 
roles
   
for each 
row
declare

    r_id roles.role_id%type;
begin
    select roles_seq.nextval into r_id from dual;
    :new.role_id := r_id;
end roles_trigger;
/

create table 
user_roles
(
    user_id 
int not null,
    role_id int not null,
    constraint pk_user_roles primary key(user_id, role_id),
    constraint fk_users foreign key(user_id) references users(user_id),
    constraint fk_roles foreign key(role_id) references 
roles(role_id)
)
;

These are the advanced membership and role provider tables with “unique identifier” primary keys.

SQL:

create table users
(
    user_id 
raw(16) default sys_guid() not null primary key,
    user_name varchar2(128) not null,
    password varchar2(128) not null,
    email varchar2(128),
    comments nclob,
    password_question varchar2(256),
    password_answer varchar2(128),
    is_approved number(1,0) default 1 check (is_approved in (1,0)) not null,
    last_activity_date timestamp not null,
    last_login_date timestamp not null,
    last_password_changed_date timestamp not null,
    creation_date timestamp not null,
    is_locked_out number(1,0) default 1 check(is_locked_out in (1,0)) not null,
    last_locked_out_date timestamp not null,
    pwd_attempt_count int not null,
    pwd_attempt_window_start timestamp not null,
    pwd_ans_attempt_count int not null,
    pwd_ans_attempt_window_start timestamp not null
);

create table 
roles
(
    role_id 
raw(16) default sys_guid() not null primary key,
    role_name varchar2(50
)
)
;

create table 
user_roles
(
    user_id 
raw(16) not null,
    role_id raw(16) not null,
    constraint pk_user_roles primary key(user_id, role_id),
    constraint fk_users foreign key(user_id) references users(user_id),
    constraint fk_roles foreign key(role_id) references 
roles(role_id)
)
;

Configuration

Use one of the scripts above to create the membership and role provider tables in your database.

Start Code On Time web application generator, select the project name on the start page, and choose Settings. Select Authentication and Membership.

Select “Enable custom membership and role providers” option and enter the following configuration settings.

table Users = users
column [int|uiid] UserID = user_id
column [text] UserName = user_name
column [text] Password = password
column [text] Email = email
column [text] Comment = comments
column [text] PasswordQuestion = password_question
column [text] PasswordAnswer = password_answer
column [bool] IsApproved = is_approved
column [date] LastActivityDate = last_activity_date
column [date] LastLoginDate = last_login_date
column [date] LastPasswordChangedDate = last_password_changed_date
column [date] CreationDate = creation_date
column [bool] IsLockedOut = is_locked_out
column [date] LastLockedOutDate = last_locked_out_date
column [int] FailedPasswordAttemptCount = pwd_attempt_count
column [date] FailedPasswordAttemptWindowStart = pwd_attempt_window_start
column [int] FailedPasswordAnswerAttemptCount = pwd_ans_attempt_count
column [date] FailedPasswordAnswerAttemptWindowStart = pwd_ans_attempt_window_start

table Roles = roles
column [int|uiid] RoleID = role_id
column [text] RoleName = role_name

table UserRoles = user_roles
column [int|uiid] UserID = user_id
column [int|uiid] RoleID = role_id

The configuration will guide the code generator in mapping the logical tables Users, Roles, and UserRoles to the physical tables in the database.

Generate the project to create the custom membership and role provider.