Thread: Signin - login 'popup'

Is there an easy way to make a login 'popup' for the site (v8)?

A lightbox like login where you don't have to leave the page you're on to login?

or even a login form on the pages?

I can't seem to figure this out.

THanks

It is a bit harder in V8, but somewhat possible. I would take a look at Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, and check the modal window functionality. That allows you to have an ASP:Panel control "popup" in a modal window. The panel would contain your login buttons.

If you aren't using MS Ajax, we've done this with jQuery and a nice styled Modal window.

Again, if you aren't using ASP.NET Ajax already, jQuery is nice and lightweight for client side stuff like this.

We don't have Visual Studio, just noptepad+ I guess we'll break down and at least use the express version for a while.

Maybe I'm too old to figure these things out anymore

Yep. The really nice thing about the Ajax control toolkit is that it is more or less drag and drop... create a panel control, drag the modal popup extender over, wire up the control IDs, and you are done You could probably just surround our existing login control with a panel and add the modal extender and have it work with basically no other mods.

Does anyone have an example of this and could maybe share their code? Particularly with the new master pages? I am using ML 9.0.1.3 and would like to have the ability for our users to sign in from our main page instead of going to the signin.aspx page.

I have jquery setup and working great on our template.master page, so if anyone has a jquery example that would be great, otherwise an ajax toolkit example works too.

Thanks in advance

I need to do this. was wondering if anyone has a solution before I try to attempt it. if so please post ,thanks!