Even easier than that... put the a shortcut to the login page in the startup folder of every user.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Tracy Bost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: autorun program at logon? You should be able to do what you need to do in ColdFusion and give the url to the systems guys.. They should be able put a batch script in the users' login that will open IE to that URL. That would save the large amount of time that would be spent changing everyone's default homepage.. Quoting Terri Stocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey all, > > This is somewhat off-topic, but I can't find any good lists to post this > > question to and this is the only list I currently belong to. Sooooo, > since > this is a very active list with lots of helpful, intelligent folks (does > it > sound like I'm buttering you up? ;)... > > I've just been asked to create some sort of > script/program/webpage/whatever > that will automatically pop up on the user's screen when they log in to > our > network (NT, migrating to W2K soon). It is very simple--just a countdown > to > the end of this fiscal year. They don't care if it is a real-time > countdown > or if it is just a display of the number of days to the end of the FY, > but > they want to make sure that EVERY employee sees it EVERY day, first > thing. > > Well, since I am a ColdFusion person (not so great in other programming > venues, though I dabble in Javascript and Java), my first thought was to > get > the networking team to modify the login script to auto-launch IE (our > standard web browser) and have the default page set to a ColdFusion page > > that I create with the countdown info. The upside of doing it this way > is > that I can have it done within about 20 minutes. Also, they may want to > add > graphics and other "marketing" type stuff later. > > The other requirement is that this program/feature be implementable in > all > of our locations worldwide. That's why I'm thinking of the CF solution > (run > on our servers here) as opposed to Java or Javascript, which may be > disabled > on a user's machine. Then each location would have to modify their login > > script to point to that CF page. > > I don't think this is a very "cool" solution--I think it would be cooler > to > actually create some sort of screensaver or popup utility that updates > automatically with the countdown number and runs right on the desktop. > But I > wouldn't even know where to begin to implement this or what snafus I may > run > into. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate > it. > > Any thoughts? Opinions? I'm all ears!!! Thanks! > > Terri > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
