Comments on: Auto-Login Bookmark http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/01/25/auto-login-bookmark/ Authored by Scott Hemmeter of Arrowpointe Corp, this blog is written from the perspective of a Salesforce.com solution provider and contains information on Arrowpointe's AppExchange products as well as tips, findings, sample code, functionality wishes, etc. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:35:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Richard http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/01/25/auto-login-bookmark/#comment-60043 Richard Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:16:35 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=71#comment-60043 Hi Scott, realise that although more than happy to have the password and user name stored as most of the users i work with have a bookmark logging into SFDC anyway so this wouldnt be a problems, especially with the IP resturctions. Hi Scott, realise that although more than happy to have the password and user name stored as most of the users i work with have a bookmark logging into SFDC anyway so this wouldnt be a problems, especially with the IP resturctions.

]]> By: Scott Hemmeter http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/01/25/auto-login-bookmark/#comment-60041 Scott Hemmeter Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:22:02 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=71#comment-60041 @Richard: There are ways to auto-login to Salesforce via a bookmark, but I am not sure how to do it where it takes you right to a report. If you did attempt this, the downside is that you'd be storing your username and password inside the bookmark, which is a security no no. @Richard: There are ways to auto-login to Salesforce via a bookmark, but I am not sure how to do it where it takes you right to a report. If you did attempt this, the downside is that you’d be storing your username and password inside the bookmark, which is a security no no.

]]> By: Richard http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/01/25/auto-login-bookmark/#comment-60040 Richard Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:14:05 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=71#comment-60040 Thanks for this is very useful. Is there any way to save a bookmark as say a report and then pass your user name and password so that it logs you in and then runs the report thanks Thanks for this is very useful.
Is there any way to save a bookmark as say a report and then pass your user name and password so that it logs you in and then runs the report

thanks

]]> By: Sivea http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/01/25/auto-login-bookmark/#comment-2205 Sivea Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:11:45 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=71#comment-2205 good one good one

]]> By: Mark Esdale http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/01/25/auto-login-bookmark/#comment-39 Mark Esdale Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:49:21 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=71#comment-39 Great tip Scott ... thanks Great tip Scott … thanks

]]> By: Steve http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/01/25/auto-login-bookmark/#comment-38 Steve Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:20:57 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=71#comment-38 If you have special characters in your username or password, you may have to encode them in the url. I use a + in my logins, which encoded looks like this: https://www.salesforce.com/login.jsp?pw=SomePass&un=steve%2Bcustomer@email.com The %2B is the encoded form of +. Here's a list of common encodings with a form that will tell you the encoding of any character: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm If you have special characters in your username or password, you may have to encode them in the url. I use a + in my logins, which encoded looks like this:

https://www.salesforce.com/login.jsp?pw=SomePass&un=steve%2Bcustomer@email.com

The %2B is the encoded form of +. Here’s a list of common encodings with a form that will tell you the encoding of any character:

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

]]> By: Steve http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/2006/01/25/auto-login-bookmark/#comment-37 Steve Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:46:48 +0000 http://sfdc.arrowpointe.com/?p=71#comment-37 Thanks for the tip--makes managing multiple logins a breeze. Thanks for the tip–makes managing multiple logins a breeze.

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