Enabling forms authentication

By default, Meridian Enterprise Server and Meridian Explorer require Windows authentication for PC browsers, not forms authentication. You can enable ASP.NET forms authentication if your organization requires it or to use the mobile-optimized version of the Meridian Explorer website as a secondary instance of the web application in addition to the default instance as described in Creating an iPad website.

Note:
  • Each user for which forms authentication is enabled will permanently claim a client license (named license) as described in About licensing.
  • These settings can be overridden for particular Accruent groups as described in Creating and editing user accounts.

To enable forms authentication:

  1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the System Management group, click Settings. The Application Settings page appears.
  2. On the APPLICATION SETTINGS page, in the FORMS AUTHENTICATION group, for the Allow forms authentication item, click CHANGE. The REGISTER AD SERVER NAME dialog box appears.
  3. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
  4. Click SAVE.
Forms authentication settings
Setting Description

Allow forms authentication

Redirects authentication requests to the specified server. Disable this option to disable forms authentication.

Active Directory name

The name of the Active Directory that you want to authenticate the requests.

Note:

This setting allows users to enter just their user name when logging on to the website. They may also enter this domain name.

Token Lifetime

Select an option from the list to specify the authentication token lifetime. Users will be required to log on when the lifetime expires.