Thanks for the feedback lasantha and nipuna.
I'm +1 to make the landing page anon if there are any anon views defined in
other pages. Let's stick to that.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Nipuna Chandradasa <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Udara,
>
> As Lasantha said that making the landing page an anon view should be
> mandatory if there are anon views available under the that landing page
> even the landing page doesn't have anon content to view.
>
> I think this is a good idea because it is not that great to have child
> pages which has anon view but the user cannot access the main view. At
> Least if there are no content to show under the landing page to a user (
> Which is not that great if it mandatory to make the landing page anon view)
> at least we can show a message saying which pages are anon views and have
> the anon content.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Lasantha Samarakoon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Udara,
>>
>> Can't we show the actual landing page even though the anon view is not
>> defined? So if the landing page doesn't have a anon view, then we can show
>> some message with all other links to accessible pages (Same as what we have
>> in regular websites. Once you logged in you have more features, otherwise
>> limited. But the home page is home page).
>>
>> In your first option, the problem is that if the developer couldn't
>> define the anon view landing page, ultimately the dashboard is not
>> accessible for any anon user unless he knows the direct url for a page.
>> Then there's no point of introducing the anon view for such scenarios.
>>
>> In the second option, as you mentioned it actually breaks the concept
>> behind a landing page. And know one can define what will be the actual
>> landing page in such situation.
>>
>> Or else we can emphasis (or make it mandatory) the developer to define a
>> anon view for the landing page in the designer if there are any anon pages
>> for the dashboard.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> *Lasantha Samarakoon* | Software Engineer
>> WSO2, Inc.
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>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Udara Rathnayake <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> At the moment we have a landing page (which developer can select while
>>> creating the dashboard) and this is the page end-user will initially get
>>> once he/she browse the dashboard.
>>>
>>> So for the anonymous view of the dashboard, we are going to use the same
>>> landing page's anon view(if exists) else user will be redirected to the
>>> login page.
>>> This approach will basically need developer to have a anon view within
>>> the landing page if there are anon views for other pages.
>>>
>>> Otherwise we can go through existing pages and check existence of anon
>>> views first and then render. This approach will deviate from the landing
>>> page concept a bit.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> UdaraR
>>>
>>
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