IWP Get Session ID

[Raphael]

Hi,

is there any way to get a session ID for an IWP session and write it into a record in the moment the record is being created?

I’m trying to build a web shop based on IWP. Unidentified web users would click on links like “Add to Cart” to add articles. After that, the user would identify doing a login and continue with a payment procedure. In this moment, the articles in the cart have to be related to the correct user, and a way to identify which articles belong to which user would be having a session ID recorded.

Thanks in advance for help,

Raphael

[Fitch]

You'd have to move to CWP to work with web session IDs, but I suppose you could roll your own pseudo-ID: create a unique ID when the user logs in and stash it in a global field or variable.

See example here, or search dunning for "UUID."

[Raphael]

Creating a unique ID when the user logs in is too late. I could, in this moment, just take the users costumer number which would be unique in the database. What I had in mind was creating a unique ID before the user logs in.

So, switching to CWP will indeed be the way, thanks for the the quick reply and helpful links!

[Fitch]

What I meant by "login" is when they first open the database, presumably by automatically logging in as a guest. The UUID would be created as part of the file's startup script.

[Raphael]

yes, that's how it worked then fine with IWP. thanks!