Login pages are used to restrict access to entire sites, or sections and pages within a site. When you first log in to your site's Home page, you are using the ACM Login page. When you wish to restrict access to areas within your site (this is called Personalization), you must create separate login pages that control where the user is directed to after they log in.
Note: These instructions are primarily for ACM login as oposed to ACTIVE Passport. For pages that use Passport, the only controls on the Content tab of the Login page type that apply are the Post Login Page checkbox and the Public Login checkbox in the Login Properties section. See Creating login pages.
Login pages have the following characteristics:
Post Login page: When you create a login page, you need to tell the system which page to display once the user has successfully logged in. When you first log in to the ACM, you are automatically directed to the site's Home page. If you personalize a section of your site - for example the Human Resources section - you create a login page that automatically directs users to the main Human Resources page once they have successfully logged in. Following this logic, each time you want to direct users to a different page after logging in, you need to create a separate login page.
Join Form page: This is actually an Application form page that users will be directed to when they click to apply for an account. For example, if a user attempts to view the restricted Human Resources section of your site but they don't have an authorized login, they can click to apply for an account. The form they complete is the application form you specify here. You can use the same application form for more than one area as long as the information you need to collect is the same. If you need to collect different information for each area a user wishes to access, you need to create a separate application form.
Reminders and password renewals: You can configure your login pages to remember users' passwords and also to send users their passwords if they forget them.
Personalization: You will need to create a login page that users use to log in to the restricted portion of the site. The login page can be placed anywhere - you can create it as a child of your Home page. The critical part with the Login page is that you must set the Post Login Page to be the entrance page of the restricted section.
Placement: You can place login pages where you like throughout your site. You will likely want to make them child pages of the restricted page or section that users will be logging in to. You can choose to display them in the section menu or not.