Summary

Inserts a field with live objects in a presentation template. There are some security issues with this component, see the Remarks section for details.

Component properties
Category AS EPT
Version 1.1
Complies with Xhtml 1.0 / 1.1 rules Yes
Supported server programming languages C# Visual Basic.NET
Output content type Unspecified or not applicable

When to use

This component is very common to use in a presentation template when you want to show ept-data that originates from webitor 2.0. The component includes data from live objects in the presentation template.

Programming interface

Parameters

Field
The ept-field to use.
Settings below will only apply on external live-objects.
ExtraQueryString
Optional, the value of this parameter will be used when fetching all external live-objects. See the Remarks section for more information.
UserName
Optional, the username to use for authentication when fetching external live-objects.
WARNING there are security problems with this parameter. See the Remarks section for more information.
Password
Optional, the password  to use for authentication when fetching external live-objects.
WARNING there are security problems with this parameter. See the Remarks section for more information.
Cache methods
  • No cache
    Do not cache live objects.
  • Use application cache
    Cache live objects using application variables. This setting should not be used in an intranet with security permissions set for the live object data.
  • UseSessionCache
    Cache live objects using session variables.
Application cache timeout
Specifies the timeout value in minutes for the application cache, 0 = no timeout
ReplaceRelativeURLs
Specifies whether to replace relative URL:s with absolute URL:s
StripHead
Specifies whether to strip HEAD and BODY elements from the htmlSource leaving only the content of the BODY tag.
DelegateCookies
Specifies whether to delegate all cookies to live objects except ASP session cookies
DelegateQuerystrings
Specifies whether to delegate all querystrings to object except id and ptid
Use silent mode
Specifies whether error messages from live objects should be displayed or not.

Remarks

Parameters under the section Settings below will only apply on external live-objects. will (as the section specifies) only apply to external live objects. In most cases, the live objects resides in the same website as the Insert field with objects AS component, these parameters will in have no effect for locally residing live objects.

Security Warning
If the live object server needs authentication and you supply a username and password, these values are stored in plain text format on the page where Inser field with objects is used. For this reason make sure that the follwing is true:

  • Use a service account dedicate for this purpose. If this account is a Windows Account it should have very limited rights on your computer and on your network.
  • Make sure that only trusted persons have READ access to the documents where this component is used.

However, this security issue only applies to the administative mode, where a user can read the document's source code - when the page is viewed on the Web page the credentials are not readable.