So with Vision, we were able to directly access the windows username of the client via client tags. We used this in an "autolaunch" project that was setup to run on all our Kiosk systems. This project would take the username, and look it up in a sql query. The query would return the gateway, project, and parameters that we actually wanted the Kiosk to be running. The project than did a Redirect to send the system to the desired project. Worked great, as it allowed us to maintain a bunch of Kiosks with a single database.
With Perspective, you can't do quite the same thing. The Browser doesn't have access to the underlying Windows usernames, etc. Good reasons, but made it painful. Here's what we've done to work around it.
We autostart on Windows boot a shortcut that points to Chrome. We've set the target to:
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --start-fullscreen "https://gatewayaddress:8043/data/perspective/client/perspautostart/?username=%username%"
The %username% is a Windows variable that will be filled in automatically via Windows when it executes the shortcut. perspautostart happens to be the name of the Perspective project that handles the magic.
In that project, we created a single page at "/".
On that page, we created a onStartup system event.
def runAction(self):
#clear namedquery cache so we get a good result
system.db.clearAllNamedQueryCaches()
#get the username that was passed via the url parameter
varusername = self.page.props.urlParams['username']
#create a dictionary to pass to the NameQuery
params = {"username":varusername}
#run namedquery against autolaunchclients
result=system.db.runNamedQuery("getredir",params)
#get number of rows in the result
rows = result.getRowCount()
if rows == 1: #user was found, proceed
#change result to a pydataset for ease of access
pydataresult = system.dataset.toPyDataSet(result)
#exract values
P_or_V = pydataresult.getValueAt(0, "Persp_or_Vision")
if P_or_V == "P": #user is a Perspective client, proceed
Gateway = pydataresult.getValueAt(0, "Gateway")
Project = pydataresult.getValueAt(0, "Project")
Params = pydataresult.getValueAt(0, "Parameters")
#join them to make the proper string
newurl="https://" + Gateway + "/data/perspective/client/" + Project + "/" + Params
#send the user on their way
system.perspective.navigate(url=newurl)
else: #invalid entry in the column. Tell the user to tell us
#
stuff goes here to tell anyone that sees the message to tell us so we can fix it
#
else: #user not in database
#
stuff goes here to tell anyone that sees the message to tell us so we can fix it
