If you can change the url sent to the users, to contain the encrypted login information, then you could send them not directly to the content, but to another page, which will process the request. Say, for example, the content is at node/67, you could send them first to /autologin/node/67, where you'll check the credentials, and pass the user on to node/67, without him/her having to do anything.

Ari Davidow wrote:

We have several password-protected Drupal installations for use by various groups connected to our organization. We have been using the Notification module to let folks know when something new has been posted. In actual practice, these sites are used so seldom that what happens is that people receive the notification, can't remember how to log in, and end up ignoring the notice (and the content) rather than ask for help logging in (again).

We think that one solution might be to send out the notifications such that they include the login/password info encrypted, so that clicking on the link takes someone into the website, already logged in. The encrypted info would probably want to expire, say, within a week.

This doesn't seem possible with the Notification module. Is there something else that provides a similar service that we might use (some comments on the Drupal forms suggested that og also sends notifications, but it isn't clear if we can ease people's way to getting into the site).

Ideas?

Quoting Ari Davidow aridavidow@gmail.com:

Ideas?

Include the links to user/password link (Request new password) in the mail. Create a user/remind_password link to have that in the mail instead. Just send the unencrypted password to the use. Always send a new password with the notification.

I'm thinking of others to add to the list. Of course more complicated methods require more time to implement.

Earnie

Two ideas:

One, look into the Login Ticket API, and Temporary Invitation module, to build a login for each user potentially, a custom module that you write could then be used to hook the temporary invitation module from the notification module, or perhaps from actions/workflow or something along those lines.

Two, LoginToboggan module will enable you to put a login form on each access denied page, which would definitely remove the question of how to log in for the logged out users, as long as they can remember their passwords.

http://drupal.org/project/loginticket http://drupal.org/project/temporary_invitation http://drupal.org/project/logintoboggan

-Mike

On Apr 29, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Ari Davidow wrote:

We have several password-protected Drupal installations for use by various groups connected to our organization. We have been using the Notification module to let folks know when something new has been posted. In actual practice, these sites are used so seldom that what happens is that people receive the notification, can't remember how to log in, and end up ignoring the notice (and the content) rather than ask for help logging in (again).

We think that one solution might be to send out the notifications such that they include the login/password info encrypted, so that clicking on the link takes someone into the website, already logged in. The encrypted info would probably want to expire, say, within a week.

This doesn't seem possible with the Notification module. Is there something else that provides a similar service that we might use (some comments on the Drupal forms suggested that og also sends notifications, but it isn't clear if we can ease people's way to getting into the site).

Ideas?

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