ByName Functionality Specification

Ideas and Bugs Report

Used this section to jot down any ideas that are need to be implemented for the next release or reported any known bugs that are need to be fixed.

Ideas - Future Implementation

• Add ByName Announcements to the default page for each user's byname web page. For instance: Latest additions: (with a drop down menu) ``LEAP WINCE 2.1 Available'' etc.

• Add the Follow-Me Messaging Preferences: Wireless E-Mail Forwarding Rules. This will be the portlet title. Set Mode: (drop-down menu) Mobile, Office, Home. On the same line add Wireless E-Mail Notification: (drop-down menu) LEAP, SMS, All, None.

  The idea is that if someone set the mode from Mobile to Home, the Message Center's MBOXes address will change accordingly. For example if the mode is Mobile, MBOX1 will only contain mobile@ and pager@ addresses, etc.

• At this moment, the e-mail confirmation and verification are sent out using the JetSpeed mail sent out system (perhaps with the javascript). Later we want to control this e-mail sentout by running the byNameNspMailSentOut.sh from the OSMT with the -p parameters.
• Additional services for existing subscriber will be created through an interview process. Take for example the TurboTax where you go through an interview process to gather the info and at the end the form format will be showed to you with all the info entered.
• Have the top page different for each page. For example instead, the anon page will have ``Welcome to My.ByName'' and the create new account page will have title ``Request a New ByName Account''

Known Bugs

• If somebody fill out the form for creating a new account and not complete (i.e. the e-mail is not supplied) the error will be displayed correctly as expected. But if the second time another required field is not supplied, the error is not displayed instead it will go to the confirmation page. In other word, if you keep click on the Create New Account button twice, it will always go to the confirmatin page.

• In the Login screen, if you just click on Login button and nothing entered, the error page did not display anything. Or if any of the field was entered incorrectly, no errors warning...

State Table

The logic of creating a new account can be described in the state table. The description of the state table (figure will follow later):

1. State 1: Anonymous My.ByName front page. User Click: Sign up now, it will go State 2.
2. State 2: Applying mode. This will be the create new account page. When all the fields are entered and the Submit button clicked, go to State 3.
3. State 3: Verifying Data Input. If all field are entered correctly, confirmation Email1 will be sent out and continue to State 4. If one or more fields are not entered correctly, go back to State 2 and it will continue this way untill all the fields are verified OK.
4. State 4: Waiting for Confirmation. If the user does not respond after a certain period of time or if the user click on the RejectURL page (from Email1), continue to State 5. If the user click on the ConfirmURL page (from Email1) or he/she entered the secret code in the confirmation page, continue to State 6.
5. State 5: Account Denied. When account is denied, no actions are taken. Report the log and notices.
6. State 6: Account Created. When new account is created, Email2 is sent out. The user will receive his/her id number and the domain name.

The logic of login for existing account can also be described in the state table. The description of the state table (figure will follow later):

1. State 1: Subscriber Login Page. There are 2 methods of login: id and password or domain and Password. Click on the Login button and it will continue to State 2.
2. State 2: Validation. If id and password method is failed, go to State 3. If domain and password method failed, go to State 4. If validation success, go to State 5.
3. State 3: id and password Failure notice and then go back to State 2.
4. State 4: domain and password Failure notice and then go back to State 2.
5. State 5: Subscriber's web Page is displayed.