Need help creating splash screen

[ashw]

I need to create splash screen in coldfusion. The screen then loads windows NT loggon screen for user name and password. Please help.

 

[philhege]

ashw,

Create a welcome/splash screen in a PUBLIC area of the web site. Insert a META REFRESH content tag that redirects to the protected resource after a few seconds (or long enough to read the splash screen).

Read

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/meta.html

for info on the META tag.

HTH,
PH

 

[ashw]

I have created the the splash screen and used the meta tag too. How do I make the splash screen the initial page like in Vb we check mark the name of the form to be loaded first. How do we do that in CF

 

[philhege]

ashw,

You should replace any link to the protected resource in your CF code with the address of the splash screen.

HTH,

 

[SafariTECHPhoenix]

If you want to make sure the splash page is seen first each session (visit) on a CF site, then teh best thing to do is create a session variable in your application file that defaults to a negative value, and then have the splash page itself change to positive.

I know that is a bit confusing, so here is what I would suggest in coding:

In the APPLICATION.CFM file, set a session variable to a default value which indicates that the splash page has not been seen yet:

<CFPARAM NAME=&quot;SESSION.SPLASHLOADED&quot; DEFAULT=&quot;NO&quot;>

Then, also in the APPLICATION.CFM FILE, tell CF to load the splash page if it wasn't seen yet.

<CFIF SESSION.SPLASHLOADED EQ &quot;NO&quot;>
<CFLOCATION addtoken=&quot;No&quot; url=&quot;splashpage.cfm&quot;>
</CFIF>

NOW, to make sure you do not end up in an endless splashpage loop, in the SPLASHPAGE.CFM file change the variable to a positive value so it will no longer load the splash page.

<CFSET SESSION.SPLASHLOADED = &quot;YES&quot;>



That should ensure that your splash page always is seen first!

Keep in mind that all your site's pages must be cfm to work - any html pages will not trigger the required splash loader.

Glen Palmer

 

[SafariTECHPhoenix]

Sorry I missed 1 thing above (otherwise you will end up in a never ending loop)

In the CFIF code I gave you it should be something like:

<CFIF SESSION.SPLASHLOADED EQ &quot;NO&quot; AND FINDNOCASE(&quot;splashpage.cfm&quot;,&quot;#cgi.scriptname#&quot;,&quot;1&quot EQ 0>
<CFLOCATION addtoken=&quot;No&quot; url=&quot;splashpage.cfm&quot;>
</CFIF>


Glen Palmer
SafariTECH