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ryan
ryan

Reputation: 1025

Building a web application that can switch between other applications seamlessly

I have a project I am working on and need a little guidance. My company has 6 different web applications where they all have a different login screen and different looks. What we are trying to accomplish is having one platform where you login once and from the main dashboard you can seamlessly switch between all applications via dropdown menu. How would I go about starting on something like this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 677

Answers (1)

opticon
opticon

Reputation: 3614

Initially it sounds like you'd want a thin, fixed menu at the top of the page, and an iframe that contains the other web-apps. Authentication is another issue, as you'd need to be able to handle user sessions for each web-app. If their username/passwords are the same across all web apps, you may be able to simultaneously log-in to each app using a single process, but maintaining variable session lengths etc. across all apps would be difficult.

Look into the iframe thing. The authentication problem depends heavily on whatever frameworks each app uses. Are you using .NET and Windows Authentication? That may simplify the problem significantly.

Upvotes: 1

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