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is there anyway to make a church directory available online through weblink?  we're making the transition from a small church to a larger church mindset but our folks still want to have access to everyone's updated phone number and address easily.  we stopped printing out paper directories because they quickly became out of date.  any suggestions from F1 or other churches?

casie stevens
new community church
www.newcommunitychurch.net

Casie,

 

We've done this.  It involves using Data Exchange by writing some code to run on our website to query F1 to verify that a person is a member or attender before allowing them access to the directory.  We create a login page that asks for the person's online account login and password, and form our query to F1 with that information, as well as our church code.  We receive info about that user in an XML response, which we parse and look for the member status of either member or regular attender.  If the person is a member or regular attender, we put up a link to the directory, which is a single PDF file. 

 
A better way would be to allow searching for someone's info rather than giving them the  whole directory, but we don't have the money yet to develop that.  But in concept it should be simple for an experienced website code writer to do. 

Here's the code that our website architects (www.atomicplaypen.com) developed to accomplish what I described in my earlier post.  I don't know exactly how it works (I am not a programmer in this language), but the general idea is that we create a form on the webpage and get the user to enter their F1 site login and password. 

 
To make this work, we created an F1 portal user account, apsite.user, specifically to perform these queries, and this account has been given Data Exchange security rights. We form a query using the individual login and password, the F1 portal account apsite.user and the password for that account, along with our church code.  This forms the query to Data Exchange in which we ask F1 for that individual's record.  The line that forms the query string is the one that begins with "xmlns:tns='GetIndividual'".  If the query string is formed correctly and the portal user account in the string has rights to perform Data Exchange queries, F1's server should respond with a record of the individual with the F1 site user login provided.

The record comes back in an XML response that we search for their membership status.  If the status is member or regular attender, we allow access.

Hoping this is useful to many,

Andrew Lang

IT Administrator

Bethlehem Baptist Church

Minneapolis Minnesota 

 

****code begins here**** 

System.Text.StringBuilder payload = new System.Text.StringBuilder();



payload.Append("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'><soap:Body><Request xmlns='http://www.fellowshipone.com/'><sXML>&lt;tns:dataRequest xmlns:tns='GetIndividual'&gt;&lt;authenticateHeader&gt;&lt;churchCode&gt;YOURWEBLINKCHURCHCODEHERE&lt;/churchCode&gt;&lt;user&gt;YOURPORTALUSERLOGIN&lt;/user&gt;&lt;password&gt;YOURPORTALUSERPW&lt;/password&gt;&lt;method&gt;GetIndividual&lt;/method&gt;&lt;version&gt;2.0&lt;/version&gt;&lt;methodGroup&gt;People&lt;/methodGroup&gt;&lt;/authenticateHeader&gt;&lt;parameters&gt;&lt;weblink&gt;&lt;userId&gt;temp_username&lt;/userId&gt;&lt;password&gt;temp_password&lt;/password&gt;&lt;/weblink&gt;&lt;/parameters&gt;&lt;/tns:dataRequest&gt;</sXML></Request></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>");

payload.Replace("temp_username", txtUsername.Text);

payload.Replace("temp_password", txtPassword.Text);



AP.Utility.Protocol.HTTP http = new AP.Utility.Protocol.HTTP();



http.AddHeader("SOAPAction", "http://www.fellowshipone.com/Request");



http.ContentType = "text/xml";

http.Encoding = "utf-8";



http.URL = "https://services.fellowshipone.com/DataExchange/DataRequest.asmx";



http.Payload = payload;



http.Send();



if (http.Response.ToString().Contains("<status>Member</status>") || http.Response.ToString().Contains("<status>Attendee</status>"))

{

    FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(txtUsername.Text, false);

}

else if (http.Response.ToString().Contains("<ExceptionMessage>"))

{

    lblUsernameError.Text = "The username/password you entered is not valid. Please try again.";

    lblUsernameError.Visible = true;

}

else

{

    lblUsernameError.Text = "Access to the membership directory is currently granted only to members or regular attenders. Please contact the church at 612-338-7653 if you are a member or regular attender and cannot access this directory.";

    lblUsernameError.Visible = true;

}
 

 

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