Facility Control

I was curious if there was a way to have a certain panel on the Ultritouch grid protected by a password - this particular panel would be used to reboot production servers, and we don't want anyone accidentally doing so. Can it be done?

To clarify, I don't mean the unit itself. I just want a password-protected panel on the grid itself, while the rest remains unlocked.

Hi Rob.

There is not presently any password protection built into PanelBuilder for using a CustomPanel. One common approach employed by panel developers is to create a semi-transparent overlay as the top layer of their panel and put a text field on it - if the user types the correct value into the text field, the overlay is hidden and the panel is usable.

<abs contexttype="opengear" gridaspect="false" gridheight="203" gridwidth="1304" touch="true" virtualheight="203" virtualwidth="1304">
<meta>
<params>
<param access="1" maxlength="0" name="password" oid="password" type="STRING" value="" widget="password"/>
</params>
<ogscript handles="onload">ogscript.toTop('overlay');</ogscript>
</meta>
<abs bottom="0" id="overlay" left="0" right="0" style="bg#00000065;" top="0" virtualheight="203" virtualwidth="1304">
<param expand="true" height="48" left="380" oid="password" top="77" width="303"/>
<button buttontype="push" height="55" left="688" name="Go!" top="73" width="63">
<task tasktype="ogscript">if (params.getValue('password', 0) == 'password')
{
ogscript.hide('overlay');
}
params.setValue('password', 0, '');</task>
</button>
</abs>
<button buttontype="push" height="141" left="62" name="PUSH ME!" top="34" width="326"/>
<button bottom="7" buttontype="push" height="63" name="Logout" right="7" width="217">
<task tasktype="ogscript">ogscript.reveal('overlay');</task>
</button>
</abs>

Note: In this case, the password is "password"

James, thank you for the reply. I've been experimenting with using a conditional check on a text entry field to allow a command to proceed, which seems to be working too. I've made the text entry field very narrow and transparent so the password isn't visible; is there a way to hash out the entry?

Thanks again.

Hi Rob.

The example code I posted does just this - change the widget hint associated with the text field to "password" and you'll get "*" instead of the typed characters.

Excellent - thank you! I changed the widget hint manually to that and it works - this is very helpful. Much appreciated.

One other quick question - I have a function that passes a string over telnet, but that string uses triangle brackets within it. Is there an easy way to escape these out so that Dashboard doesn't replace automatically with ASCII codes?

Hi Rob.

If you're in the script editor, it should handle this automatically for you. If you to rosstalk.sendMessage(HOST, PORT, '<TEST>');

It will appear in the XML source as: rosstalk.sendMessage(HOST, PORT, '&lt;TEST&gt;');

But it would actually send-out the correct ASCII codes for < and > when the message goes over the wire. The escaping is just for storing it in the XML.

James