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In most cases when creating a WebApp for an existing (Windows) system, that system will already have a mechanism for checking user credentials (i.e. user-name and password) in existance. The Data Access supplied mechanism for WebApps uses its own tables for this and for session management within that. So how do we integrate the two?

Actually it is reasonably simple, but I'm going to go through it line-by-line, so it will seem like a lot, but it really isn't.

The instructions below assume that your system has a user table; that it has a userID column of some sort; that column is the primary (unique) key; and that column is the sole element of Index.1 on that table. (If that last is <u>not</u> the case, you will have to also modify the "Send Find of hoUserDD EQ Index.1" line in the UserLogin procedure in your sub-class to use the correct index.)

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