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What? Me not understand Danglish :-).

Lets say you create a page called /profile - and that page shows the users profile. If the user is logged in, they will of course see their profile on that page and it would be different for each user eventhough the url is the same.

If that is the page you want to be called just /{name-of-user} that is a problem. You can however do that if it is ok that it is called /profile/{name-of-user}.

Since it would be the page /profile the /{name-of-user} does not have an impact on what happens on the page, except of being in the URL.

/profile is rewritten to /Default.aspx?ID=123 - /profile/{name-of-user} should then link to /Default.aspx?ID=123&userid=456.

To do that, you can create a UrlProvider. Those are pretty simple to do. See dump#1 and the example in UserUrlProvider.zip

With that you will have the profile on the /profile/{name-of-user} url if the user logs in or have autlogin.

To login the user on that page automatically based on the AccessUserID (which you now have in the URL because of the UserUrlProvider), you can write a piece of code that does that for you. An example attached in PageLoadedObserver.zip that does that. One catch is though, that it will not work if you are not storing passwords in clear text in database...

There is no publically available authentication methods that can login users without their password... For security reasons.

Yeah, sorry for the danish part - glad you figured it out ;-)

I actually wanted to update the thread name to "Public user page, with unique URL" (or something like that), but I i'm not able to edit the title.

Anyways... Thanks for the indepth reply!

 So that seams to cover my first question: "Can you create a unique page per user, named username og ID".

To follow up with my second question: "Can that page be shareable". Does that mean that the /profile/runeskovbo page will not be behind login and will indeed be shareable?

Again, the idea is that, while im logged in, I can add products to my favourite list and that list will then be visible to anyone on "my page".

Hi Rune

Example 2 in the thread above is a shareable page. Problem is that the code actually logs in the user, so that would be another problem. Because then the anonymous user will be able to go to the products and add other products etc.

If you use the new indexing engine, you can use a small macro to give you a criteria for the indexing to return the products on your whishlist - in that way you can get a product list using the catalog module with the whishlist... See dump and example attached.

Hi Nicolai

Yeah that's what I was afraid of. We only want other users (or non-users) to see the lists - not add to them. Also there's the whole "edit user" part that should be locked to the actual user.

We are definitely going to use the new index, so the supplied example of outputting a specific users favourite list looks great!

But just so I understand you correctly, by combining your example 1 in your first post and this way of outputting a favourite list - does that mean that I can automatically create a unique page for each user (/profile/runeskovbo) where I can output the users favourite list and that is accessible without a login? Or is it the whole "/profile/runeskovbo" part that poses a problem?

/Rune

Perfect!

Thanks Nicolai :-)

/Rune