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Implementing the landlord & vendor login screens

The client web reports facility is supplied as part of your Universal subscription. It is implemented in a similar way to the property search in that a link/button should be added to your existing web site and the page displayed (supplied by Thesaurus Technology) allows an landlord or vendor to login into their account. Once the client has logged into their section they can view various information about their property.

The colours of this page can be changed to match your own web site from within the software or by contacting Thesaurus Technology.

Adding the client web reports page to your web site is a simple process:

The URL for your search will come in the form of:

http://www.housescape.org.uk/cgi-bin/webreports.aspx?branchid=demo (demo is replaced the agents individual four digit code)

Customers subscribing after 01 June 2006 should use the second option with the www2 prefix. Please note all examples of www.housescape.org.uk below should be replaced by www2.housescape.org.uk for customers subscribing after 01 June 2006. If in doubt please contact Thesaurus Technology.

The email address and password are provided to the end user and these can be setup on either the landlord or vendor windows within Universal.

  To incorporate this into your existing web site

A very quick and simple way of adding the client web reports into your web site is to paste the link below into your web page(s). The following code can be run from a simple text link or a graphic button. 

<a href="http://www.housescape.org.uk/cgi-bin/webreports.aspx?branchid=demo"
   target="_blank">Click here to login</a>

  To fully integrate the client web reports into your existing web site

To fully integrate the client web reports a slightly more complex method is required that uses frames. This involves a web technique that essentially "splits" a web page into sections that, when viewed on screen, appear as one page to the viewer. One usage of this method is to provide a common, static navigational element in one part of the screen while the content that changes appears in another part. You may have visited a web site where one portion of the screen stays still while the other side scrolls - this is Framing.

Notice the names for the frames - Top and Main. Top is the frame that contains the navigation buttons in this example.

The page that creates the frames 

<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome Apple Estate Agents</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="90,*" border="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> 
  <frame src="top.htm" name="top" scrolling="no" resize="no">
  <frame src="home.htm" name="main" scrolling="auto" resize="no">
</frameset>
</html>

This page splits the screen into 2 frames. A 90 pixel high top frame to hold the navigation page and a larger bottom frame to display the home page, search page etc.

The top.htm (navigation) page 

<html>
<body>
<a href="home.htm" target="main">Home</a> | 
<a href="http://www.housescape.org.uk/cgi-bin/webreports.aspx?branchid=demo"
  target="main">Login Screen</a>
</body>
</html>

This is a sample navigation page with 2 buttons. This allows the user to switch between the home page and the property search page. Notice that when creating links in this page, the target="" attribute uses the name of the bottom frame (main). This cause the links in the top frame to open pages in the bottom frame. There is one link that appears with http:// in front of it. This is called an absolute reference. That is what you will use to make your client web reports appear in your frame, since the Universal search is on a different server than your web site. The other links are using relative references, since they are referring to documents that appear on the same server.


Example client login page

If you are implementing the login screens using an iframe, the minimum with is 700px wide to avoid horizontal scrolling.


  
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