Q100068: [Connections] General Login

The General Login Connection is a definition which tells a module, how to connect to and communicate with some sort of remote connection, service, or API endpoint. This connection type is a little bit different than most of the connection types. Most connection types are specific to a particular group of modules that share some sort of functionality. This one is different only in that it is not for a specific group of module, but is just general purpose in use. These are some modules where they only need a basic login name and password to authenticate, and don't have any other settings defined as part of the connection. This is just what the General Login Connection provides; just a simple template with login and password settings defined.

If you use the global connection manager, you will see that as soon as you create a new entry, it will provide you the template for starting your General Login Connection definition. It would look like the example below.

Username=<username>;Password=<password>

Since usage is based on the module that you use it with, the exact specifics of what you would supply would be dependant on the module. You are able to use this, or any, connection type with your own custom modules too. Therefore if you had a custom module that needed to communicate with some service that needed to do some sort of authentication using a login and password, you could use this connection type to manage the account used. A general use in a custom module might look like the following example.

Username=PeterPan;Password=CaptHook!Mean4Nasty