I am new to Website Access Manager. I was wondering if anyone could post a site that I could look at to see the program working? I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
Amy

You really will not see anything other them a user name and password box delivered from the browser.

http://hotsync.net/wam

user: wamtest
pass: coffeecup

Thanks for the reply. I'm still interested in seeing a website that uses the program. Just to see the log in buttons and look at the prompt. To see what kind of sites use the program. I am creating a business site that needs a secure login for personal client accounts. I'd like to compare the site that I am working on to some other sites.

Thanks for any replies

Hiya Amy,

what you see when you click on the link in Scott's post is what you see when you use the program. There are no buttons and whistles, it's a login to access a page/folder/etc. it's not a login setup for logging into a site. This program gives you the ability to grant access to specific areas of your site, but it's not a registration/login type system which is what it sounds like you're thinking it is or what you're wanting.

I hear ya, Jo Ann. Thanks for the reply. Is the Password Wizard the program I need to look at for a login setup for logging into a site? I'm just trying to figure out what I need to use. The site I am creating is going to allow customers to access their personal accounts. I guess part of what I am also thinking about is the look of the site. I would really like for customers to be able to log in to their information through a login prompt like we use on the Coffeecup website. It looks great, and is very functional. But I also want the security, so the Access Manager is more what I need for that.

Yes, you are going to want to stick with Website Access Manager over Password Wizard because of the data you are trying to protect. This means you will not be able to have a log in box on your Website directly, you will just have to use a link like I did below.

Although I agree totally with Scott that the WAM would be most useful for your purposes, I can't help think that you're not going to get what you want from this setup. It's not going to be able to handle anything for accounts in any way other than giving the people access to specific areas you have designated to them manually in the WAM program. There are no actual "logins" setup for this, and there are no "account" management facilities setup in this. I find myself once again hating to have to say it to anyone, but I think that you would find a CMS a better choice for your purposes if you need login capabilities. I don't think anything that CC has at this time can accommodate that at all other than manually scripting it yourself with the software. More power to you if you can do that! I can't so I tend to think of what I can do, and a CMS would probably be your most useful bet for this situation.

There are a few of them out there, Joomla being the only one that comes to mind but, it doesn't have very good account capabilities at this time (coming very soon from what I hear though). But there are many out there that do have good group control.

I do hope you find what you need here at CC though, but in case you were expecting something to do this for you, I figured you should know it won't. Good luck no matter what you decide to do and as always ask away if you need assistance.

I have about 70 clients who need to access their own accounts. So they need to be able to get on my website and log in to see their own personal information. Like when I log in to Coffeecup, I can view my own account. I think I'm going to try the Web Access Manager on the site and see what I can do.

Hiya Amy,

Yeah you'll be able to give the "access" to specific pages, but unless you have pages already concocted with their information on it, with ways for changing things for them etc. the WAM won't do them much good as it doesn't create pages that contain their info. If you're up to creating 70 pages of info to give them each access to their own pages then that works, but the lack of an actual personal login system won't really do what you're wanting this for. I know it's not what you want to hear, and Scotts ready to probably cuff me one LOL, but I need to honestly make sure you see this so you don't go expecting big things and end up upset with CC because you didn't get the results you expected. Hope that makes sense.

In a nut shell WAM works like this:

• You create your 70 accounts in WAM for your clients and you send them the ID & PW for their logins to the site.
• You create pages that you want them to access (personal info would be read only for the most part unless you have specially scripted pages that you add yourself manually)
• You connect each login to specific pages or folders on your site.
• They now have access to whatever pages or folders you set them up for.

That's it in a nut shell. There's no personal areas setup where they can do any changes to their account info, whatever you set them up to see they see and that's all they can do is view (or fill out forms or whatever you have setup on those pages of course if you have scripted objects they can interact with).

Wolverana (& others!)

This thread has got at the nub of a question I've had in my head for a while.

However, can somebody PLEASE clarify what the exact physical experience will be with WAM in-use?

I mean - fine, I know that the login box appears - but how do you get from 'Website Homepage' to causing this login box to appear? So far, no-one's explained the physical context of where and how this box is caused to appear.

For example, if I were explaining how the Coffeecup's own website login box works, I'd say that you go to the Homepage, look at the top-left of the page, and there it is - enter your details.

I know that that's not how it works with WAM - but is it that you can program a button (in VSD 6.0) which when pressed causes the aforementioned login box to appear? And then of course, once filled in, the box acts as a gate to sections of one's site intended for specific eyes only (nothing more, I do understand).

The original poster actually wanted a live example, which no-one has seemed to be able to provide!! For me, an example where you go from 'main site' to 'private sections' of that site, would be really helpful, where of course WAM was used as the gate device. One live example would save a 1000 words!

Thanks in advance for your help - and yes, I would rather someone experienced explain it to me in plain English, rather than my going through the learning curve with something that may not do what I need.