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Creating Login Pages
Login saves shoppers a lot of time from repeatedly entering account information
when buying products. The username and password are compared against a
customers database. If registered, the shopper is taken to the final checkout page
listing account information and the shopping cart’s contents.
The main functionality on a login page is set using the Security and Database
Navigation Interactions. Cookie Interactions can be used to customize the page to
the site visitor. To view an example of these interactions in a Drumbeat site file,
open the QuickStoreComplete Starting Point and activate the CheckoutLogin
page. Right click an open space on the page and choose Assigned Interactions
(ordered). In the attic, you see a long list of interactions.
Notice the following two interactions:
1
Security: Verify username from Username and password from Password and
redirect (store additional variable in Session)
2
Database Navigation: Go to pagename when [source] is clicked, maintaining
state of [target]