User Guide

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To determine a user’s ID, given their login name and password:
1. Log in as the user.
2. Call the common-info action.
3. Parse the returned XML to find the value of the user-id attribute of the user tag. That value
is the user’s ID.
To check whether an entered password is correct:
1. Log in as the user.
2. If the status code returned is "ok", the password is correct.
This procedure is the only way to check a password; for security reasons, Breeze doesn’t let you
request a user’s password from the server.
To list all the courses the user is enrolled in:
1. Log in as the user.
2. Call the report-my-courses action.
3. Parse the returned XML and display the results. For more information about the returned
XML, see
my-courses on page 137.
To list all the meetings the user has signed up to attend:
1. Log in as the user.
2. Call the report-my-meetings action.
3. Parse the returned XML and display the results. For more information about the returned
XML, see
my-meetings on page 138.
To display the contents of the user’s content folder:
1. Log in as the user.
2. Call the sco-shortcuts action.
This action provides the location of the root folder of the current account as well as the
locations of other folders, such as the current user’s meetings and other content.
The following code uses the same
baseurl, accesskey, and loginCookie variables that are
set in the login code in “Integrating Breeze with a directory service” on page 28:
<cfhttp url="#baseurl#api/xml?action=sco-shortcuts&accesskey=#accesskey#"
method="post">
<cfhttpparam type="Cookie" name="BREEZESESSION" value="#loginCookie#">
</cfhttp>
3. Determine the ID of the my-content folder, by searching for the appropriate type attribute in
the returned
sco tags:
<cfset response= cfhttp.FileContent >
<cfset xml= XmlParse(response)>
<cfset contentScoElement= XmlSearch(xml, "//sco[@type='my-content']")>
<cfset contentSco= contentScoElement[1].XmlAttributes["sco-id"]>