Open user's home page from desktop application without login screen

[fedepia]

Hello people, how are you? i have a java desktop application with several things, and one of this is a section that calles to sugar.

So, what can i do to call sugar passing some parameters (like username and pass) skipping the login screen, to show a user's home page?

I need any way to call from desktop application to a browser with sugar already logged and showing a user's home page

[sacramentojoe]

Well, if you are using a java desktop, then you can use the SOAP api to do seemless login and then display your home page and whatever else you want.
If you're talking about a Widget like Google Desktop, you'll need to write your own.

[fedepia]

hello joe, thanks for your reply. So, i looked for seemless login, and in my java application i tested the follow:
- call to login web service (using the admin user) <--- this returned a session id
- call to seamless login web service using last session id <---- this returned an integer, i.e. '1'
and then... i don't know how to show an user home page...

i tested with an exec funcion using it like this:
cmd.exe /C explorer "http://localhost/sugarcrm/index.php?module=Home&action=index"

but... it always redirects to login page

i don't know what i can do to log an user, and then open a browser the sugar already logged.

Any suggerence?

Cheers!

[eggsurplus]

It depends on if you have the password on hand or not. If you do you can simply do something like:

 http://testdomain/sugar_test/index.php?action=Authenticate&module=Users&user_name=my_user_name&user_password=my_password&login_theme=Sugar&login_language=en_us&login_module=Accounts&login_action=index 
  

If not you'd need to query the database but since the password is encrypted you might have to do what we did and use the user_hash to authenticate like:

 http://testdomain/sugar_test/index.php?action=Authenticate&module=Users&user_name=my_user_name&user_hash=my_user_hash_from_db&login_theme=Sugar&login_language=en_us&login_module=Accounts&login_action=index 
  

If passing in a user_hash is acceptable to you there are just a couple of changes to make to allow that to work.

modules/Users/Authenticate.php:

 /** [IC] 2007/06/21 eggsurplus: too allow screen popup from call software */
 $authController->login($_REQUEST['user_name'],(isset( $_REQUEST['user_hash'])? $_REQUEST['user_hash']:$_REQUEST['user_password']));
//$authController->login($_REQUEST['user_name'], $_REQUEST['user_password']); 
  

modules/Users/Authenticate/SugarAuthenticate/SugarAuthenticate.php -> loadUserOnLogin():

         $user_id = $this->authenticateUser($name, $user_hash);
        /** [IC] 2007/06/21 eggsurplus: too allow screen popup from call software */
        /** if password above doesn't work check to see if a hash would authenticate  below */
        if(empty($user_id)) {
            $user_id = $this->authenticateUser($name, $password);
        } 
  

[fedepia]

Egg... i wasted 9hs of my life trying to solve my issue, and then you write 3 lines and solves it...
Man, i can't stop loving you
Thanks a lot!!