4 Customizing WAassistant
WAassistant is a regular Roundup application. Refer to Roundup
configuration, customization and design documentation to learn how to
customize Roundup applications including WAassistant.
There is one special feature about WAassistant. For the purpose of
authenticating users you can use either standard Roundup login
mechanism or authentication through the
WAusers application. The
latter case has the following features:
- Users are authenticated through a WAusers tracker instead of passwords
stored in the local tracker database.
- To enable external authentication set the home configuration
option in the file configwa.ini to the path of your WAusers
tracker. For instance, if you installed a WAusers tracker to
/some/directory, replace the line home = with home
= /some/directory in configwa.ini.
- With WAusers authentication enabled in configwa.ini the user
editing form contains WAusers user name field instead of the password
field. You authorize the given WAusers user to access the tracker
under the given local user name.
- If configuration option same_login in configwa.ini is
set to yes, local login names are the same as WAusers user
names. In this case no WAusers user name field is displayed in the
user editing form, you only specify the single login name.
- When creating new users, the user editing form is reduced. The other
data are propagated from the WAuser's database when the created user
logs into the project for the first time.
- For more details about WAusers refer to the WAusers manual.
Please note that WAassistant, WAchecker and WAusers are projects that
have just started. We hope they will help to improve accessibility of
Web sites to handicapped users and perhaps also to users not using
just one particular browser at a given resolution. We will welcome if
WAassistant and WAchecker become growing collaborative projects so
don't hesitate to contribute your improvements and suggestions, see
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