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Re: Pass queryString with the Sitemap Node

Bobby-Z — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:53:22 GMT

It looks fine, but are you receiving it on the other page. ie Have your programmed it to receive the query (Visual Basic)

request.querystring("UserID").ToString

so lets say you are using it to display a xslt transfom fro an xml datasource

XmlDataSource1.TransformSource = "../file_" + request.querystring("ID") = ".xsl"

What you have will work but it is like having a QB without a receiver on the second page.

I don't know if this was your problem, but I hope it helped you to check through your problem step by step

but yes he is right you do NOT want to pass a user id through a querystring since it is readable.

The better thing to do is pass your values to the next page, then get the userID.

Re: Pass queryString with the Sitemap Node

Bobby-Z — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:50:57 GMT

It looks fine, but are you receiving it on the other page. ie Have your programmed it to receive the query (Visual Basic)

request.querystring("UserID").ToString

so lets say you are using it to display a xslt transfom fro an xml datasource

XmlDataSource1.TransformSource = "../file_" + request.querystring("ID") = ".xsl"

What you have will work but it is like having a QB without a receiver on the second page.

I don't know if this was your problem, but I hope it helped you to check through your problem step by step

Re: Pass queryString with the Sitemap Node

Dave Sussman — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:42:41 GMT

The first thing you should do is NOT pass the user id int he query string, because it's visible to users. That means they could just alter the query string value in the browser address bar and pretend they were another user. The simplest solution is to store it in the session. So when the user logs in just do:

Session("UserID") = 1

Then in your other pages you can just have:

Dim UserID as Integer = Integer.Parse(Session("UserID"))

In fact, if you need to protect pages so that users have to be logged in, do:

Dim UserID As Integer
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(Session("UserID") Then
Response.Redirect("Login.aspx")
Else
UserID = Integer.Parse(Session("UserID"))
End If

Re: Pass queryString with the Sitemap Node

AvanthaSiriwardana — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:43:09 GMT

Hi Dave Sussman

I'm pretty much happy cause you have reached to the point I want. I have a loggin control in my homepage and once the user logs in it should pass to the other pages Via the sitemap as well. But the thing is I don’t use that in built membership and user controls since I have my own created database for handling user details. When user clicks on the site map, userID should go into the next page and the output should look like this. http://localhost:1442/Web/MyAccount.aspx?userID=2

Re: Pass queryString with the Sitemap Node

Dave Sussman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:28:30 GMT

The query string that gets passed is exactly what you type, so your query string contains UserID=UserID, which I assume isn't what you want; I guess you want the value of some UserID variable passed in there. So, the question is, where does that UserID come from? Is it just the ID of the currently logged in user? If so you don't need to pass it in because it's available from the membership system. Or is it coming from wsomewhere else?

Re: Pass queryString with the Sitemap Node

integrasol — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:34:07 GMT

It works fine here, but where does it go wrong at your end? Does the query string not get passed on, or is it on the destination page you have problems?

Pass queryString with the Sitemap Node

AvanthaSiriwardana — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:03:15 GMT

Dear Friends.

I have an application and I want to pass a QueryString inside the sitemap URL... How can I do that.??

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<siteMapNode url="MyAccount.aspx?userID=UserID" title="My Account" description="" /> (here it does not work !)

</siteMapNode>

</siteMap>

Dear Friends.

I have an application and I want to pass a QueryString inside the sitemap URL... How can I do that.??

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<siteMapNode url="MyAccount.aspx?userID=UserID" title="My Account" description="" /> (here it does not work !)

</siteMapNode>

</siteMap>

Please advice,

regds

Avantha Siriwardana