Actuate Information Console reference : Actuate Information Console custom tags : login
 
login
Establishes the connection to the Actuate BIRT iHub. On successful connection, Actuate BIRT iHub returns the authentication ID used during the user’s session to validate credentials and check access permissions. Actuate BIRT iHub returns the home folder and start folder as well.
Library
login
Tag class
com.actuate.reportcast.tags.common.LoginTag
Attributes
Table 7‑8 lists and describes the attributes for login.
Table 7‑8 Attributes for login
Attribute
Required
Description
disableBasicAuthentication
No
Boolean value. If True, disable basic authentication.
force
No
Boolean value. True to force a login, False to display the login page. The default is False. For example, when switching between Encyclopedia volumes and using APSE, set force=true to force the Information Console Login module to call APSE to perform the login operation. This prevents the login page from appearing unnecessarily.
id
Yes
Unique identifier for the object.
locale
No
The locale to display.
password
No
The user’s password.
serverURL
No
The host and port of the Actuate BIRT iHub to which the user wants to connect.
timeZone
No
The time zone to display.
userID
Yes
The user’s identifier, required to log in to the Actuate BIRT iHub.
volume
No
The name of the volume to which the user wants to connect. If volume is not specified, the login tag checks whether the variable volume_default is set in the web.xml file.
Variables
Table 7‑9 lists and describes the variables for login.
Table 7‑9 Variables for login 
Variable
Description
homeFolder
The user’s home folder
startFolder
The folder that the user sees upon successful login
authID
The authentication ID returned by Actuate BIRT iHub upon successful login
Used in
<context root>\authenticate.jsp
Example
The following example logs in the user jaguilar to the volume sales on the Actuate BIRT iHub marcom with the password secret:
<actu:login clusterURL="http://marcom:8900/" userID="jaguilar"
password="secret" volume="sales" />