Symbol Technologies MC3000 - Manual (Page 157)

Wireless Applications 7-43
Login, Log Off Application
When the user launches the login, log off application, the mobile computer may be in two states; the user may already be logged onto
the mobile computer (having already entering credentials through the login box) or the user is not logged on. Each of these states
have a separate set of use cases and a different look to the dialog box. To send the credentials though WCS API tap OK. If there are
no credentials entered, a dialog box displays informing the user which field was not entered.
Table 7-27 lists the login and log off
options.
When a user has successfully logged in, the Log Off button displays. To log off tap the Log Off button. The user is prompted with
three options: log off, switch users, and cancel. Switching users logs off the current user and re-initialize the login dialog box to be
displayed for when there is no user logged on. Logging off logs off the current user and close the login dialog box. Tap Cancel to
close the log off dialog box. Once the log off dialog box is closed the login dialog box displays.
When the user is logged off, the mobile computer only roams to profiles that do not require credentials or to profiles that were created
with the credentials entered into the profile.
To closes the dialog without logging into the network tap the Cancel button. If the login dialog was launched by the WCS and not
by the user, a message box to displays a warning that the cancel disables the current profile. If the user still chooses to cancel the
login at this point, the profile is cancelled. Once a profile is cancelled, the profile is suppressed until a user actively re-enables it or
a new user logs onto the mobile computer.
User Already Logged In
If a user is already logged in, launch the login dialog box to:
• Connect to and re-enable a cancelled profile. To perform this function:
• Launch the password dialog.
• Select the cancelled profile from the profile list.
• Login to the profile.
NOTE: Cancelled profiles can also be re-enabled by using the Profile Editor Wizard and choosing to connect to the cancelled
profile. Cancelled profiles are also be re-enabled when a new user logs on.
• Logoff the mobile computer, to prevent another user from accessing the current users network privileges.
• Switch mobile computer users, to quickly logoff the mobile computer and allow another user to log into the mobile computer.
Table 7-27. Login and Log Off Options
Field Description
Wireless Profile Field When a user launches the login application, the wireless profile field has all the wireless profiles (that require credentials)
available. This includes profiles that use EAP TLS, PEAP, LEAP, and EAP-TTLS.
Profile Status Icon The profile status icon in the dialog (shown next to the profile name) displays one of three states:
• The selected profile has been cancelled.
• The selected profile is enabled but is not the current profile.
• The profile is the current profile (always the case for WCS Launched).
Network Username and Password
Fields The network username and network password fields are used as credentials for the profile selected/shown in the wireless
profile field. Currently these fields are limited to 159 characters.
Mask Password Checkbox The mask password checkbox determines whether the password field is masked (i.e. displays only the '*' character) or
unmasked (i.e. displays the actual text being entered). If the box is checked, the password is unmasked. Unchecking the
box causes the password to be masked. The default state is unchecked to cause masked passwords.
Status Field The status field is used for displaying status that is important to the login dialog. If the user opens the dialog and needs
to prompt for credentials for a particular profile at this time, it can use the status field to let the user know that the network
is being held up by the password dialog being open.