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If you are looking to customize the way your users login to your BO 4.0 system, a good place to start is the WEB-INF\internal directory in the new BOE webapp structure. It lists the different applications equinox plugin references, and can provide clues into many hidden pathways. If you examine the “BIlaunchpad.properties” file, you will find the reference to the external login methods:

What this spells out, is that essentially, the same paths that worked for 3.x will work for 4.x with minor mods. One technique to create your completely custom logon page, is to collect the user credentials, and the redirect to a procedure that generates en enterprise token, and pass it to the start.do process. The code below is an example of such a process using a simple jsp file. Enjoy your custom login page…

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
    <%@ page import="com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.IEnterpriseSession,
com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.CrystalEnterprise,
com.crystaldecisions.sdk.exception.SDKException, com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.ISessionMgr,
com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.ILogonTokenMgr, com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.IUserInfo,
com.businessobjects.bcm.*" %>
<%
try{
    String username = "Administrator";
    String password = "YOUR PASSWORD";
    String cms = "CMS:PORT";
    String authType: = "secEnterprise";
    String BOEHost = "BOEHOST:PORT";
    String token = "";
      IEnterpriseSession enterpriseSession = CrystalEnterprise.getSessionMgr().logon(username, password, cms, authType);
      ILogonTokenMgr tokenMgr = enterpriseSession.getLogonTokenMgr();
      token = tokenMgr.getDefaultToken();
      session.setAttribute("token",token);
      response.sendRedirect("http://"+BOEHost+"/BOE/BI/logon/start.do?ivsLogonToken="+token);
      }
      catch(Exception e){
      out.println(new java.util.Date()+": error occured: "+e);
      }
%>