Common QPR Authentication

It is possible to configure a common authentication system between different QPR Suite product web clients (e.g. QPR ProcessAnalyzer Web Client and QPR Portal), so that linking from one product web client to the other can be done without the need of a separate login for the product that is the link target.

Configuring Common QPR Authentication

The configuration file web.config in QPR ProcessAnalyzer Service is used for registering servers belonging to the common authentication server group. The servers can then share user sessions created for users.

To set up a common authentication server group:

1. Create or change usernames in both the source and target QPR products, so that the usernames are identical in both products.
2. Configure common authentication settings by adding the URL of the product where the linking is done from to the web.config file of the target product. For example, to link between QPR ProcessAnalyzer Web Client and QPR Portal, do as follows:

• Add two groups, ServerGroupPA and ServerGroupMEA, to the web.config file under <Qpr.ProcessAnalyzer.Common.Properties.Settings> section. Specify the QPR ProcessAnalyzer service URLs for ServerGroupPA and the QPR Portal service URLs for ServerGroupMEA. See example below:

            <setting name="ServerGroupPA" serializeAs="Xml">
                <value>
                    <ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
                        <string>http://pa1.qpr.com</string>
                        <string>http://pa2.qpr.com</string>
                    </ArrayOfString>
                </value>
            </setting>
            <setting name="ServerGroupMEA" serializeAs="Xml">
                <value>
                    <ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
                        <string>http://mea1.qpr.com/QPR/Portal/QPRIsapi.dll</string>
                        <string>http://mea2.qpr.com/QPR/Portal/QPRIsapi.dll</string>
                    </ArrayOfString>
                </value>
            </setting>

Linking between QPR Products

Common QPR authentication enables opening links, such as QPR ProcessAnalyzer reports in QPR Portal, without additional authentication.

To view an analysis created with QPR ProcessAnalyzer in QPR Portal, do as follows:

1. In QPR ProcessAnalyzer Excel Client, open the analysis you want to view.
2. To save the current analysis view as a bookmark, click the Bookmark button, select New Bookmark and in the Bookmark Properties dialog that opens, click OK.
3. Find out the Id of the bookmark you just created by opening the Bookmark Properties dialog for the bookmark you created and see the Id in the Statistics group of that dialog.
   Optionally, in Manage Bookmarks dialog, right click a column title, select Column Chooser from the popup and drag the Id column to the table.
4. In QPR Portal, create a new bookmark. Paste the Id to the end of a URL that is formatted as follows: http://<QPR ProcessAnalyzer server>/#bookmark=<bookmarkId>&xsession=<sessionId>. For example: http://pa.qpr.com/#bookmark=1&xsession=<session id>. The session Id will be created automatically.
5. In QPR Portal, open the bookmark you created in the previous step and you will see the analysis without additional authentication.