[Wactclc-alma] [EXTERNAL*]-Re: Password-protected login via EZProxy

[Elena Bianco]

Hi Naoko:

Thanks so much for sharing this out! It's great to know that this is an option. I am meeting with our director of advising in a couple of weeks to figure out if we really need to have students use their own accounts.

Since our IT department is going to take a long time to figure out how to implement Okta authentication for this, I am tempted to just have faculty put the links to WOIS in their Canvas shells directly with no link from the library site until that authentication can happen.

Elena



Elena Bianco

Systems & Technical Services Librarian

Skagit Valley College Library

2405 E. College Way

Mount Vernon, WA 98273



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Hi all,

I wanted to follow up on this topic. I used the FormVariable directive for WOIS's new site and it is working the way we want.

If your users are required/would like to create their own accounts to access the site, this will not work for them. I know Lily at SPSCC has figured out a way to facilitate creating individual accounts.

We wanted our students to be able to access the site without having to log in to their own accounts, so I requested a general site login from WOIS, which is a different login from the one for creating individual accounts.

Here is the stanza:

Title WOIS
URL -Form=post WOIS https://wa.cis360.org/login/into-careers-form
FormVariable name=your institution's general login username
FormVariable password=your institution's general login password
FormVariable action=login

Proxied link example:
https://bow.highline.edu/login?url=https://bow.highline.edu/login/WOIS

If you are interested in using the FormVariable directive for other sites, here is a great guide for figuring out which HTML elements to use in the stanza:

https://cuny907-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/stephen_francoeur54_login_cuny_edu/ESJHU7sBcGVLslV62L4s9AMBRdVMLwuhnFmAoHfFrGxPQw?rtime=bsilebBp2kg

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you,
Naoko
Highline College
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Yes, you’ve got it.



That’s exactly how FormVariable works.



FormVariable - OCLC Support<https://help.oclc.org/Library_Management/EZproxy/Configure_resources/FormVariable>



To set up the ezproxy stanza, you just need to ‘view source’ on the vendor web page where the credentials are entered, so you can reference the name of the form variables used in their authentication form.







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Wade,



Thanks for mentioning the FormVariable<https://help.oclc.org/Library_Management/EZproxy/Configure_resources/FormVariable> option in EZProxy during the meeting today. I didn’t even know that option existed.



If I understand correctly, we can use this in situations where we have password-protected access to an eresource when we get a single username/password that’s intended to provide access for multiple users, yes?



We have a streaming video we licensed last year where the vendor posted the video on the Vimeo platform and then sent us a username and password that we have to give to any patron who wants to watch the video.



Instead of manually sharing the password when patrons ask for it, we could create a FormVariable EZProxy stanza with the password the vendor gave us. Then when a patron finds the video in Primo, clicks the link and authenticates in EZProxy, EZProxy will pass the password along to Vimeo and the patron will be able to watch it without having to contact us.



Is that correct or am I misunderstanding how the FormVariable option works?



It will be ok!



Kirsti S. Thomas

Library Technical Services Manager

Seattle Colleges

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