Add reset password

The reset password functionality in DG3 is based on the one found in Django. It is also implemented as custom code pages that was installed when you checked for authentication the in application settings. Reset passwords uses the mailhandling module for sending reset mails to the registered user, so the first you have to do is activate that module.

How to activate mailhandling

The mailhandling module is one of the built in modules that comes with DG3. To use it, you need to activate it. Go to settings and select module tab. Int the list, check if the module called mailhandling have a yellow marker in front, if not double click mailhandlig or select it and use activate module icon. Now save settings using the save application settings icon and select mailhandling by clicking on the module name. Now you must fill in information of how to send mail from a proper smtp server as you would do it in your mail application. The address you fill in the EMail from field is the one found as the sender by reset password mail. Some ISPs do not allow you to use port 25, so then you have to use the alternative 587. This is just as if you had to configure a mail client on your application server. It the mail works on your development computer, but not on your server, the blocking of port is the most likely reason for your problems.

Changing the templates to match your site

There are two kind of changes we have to do to to get the password reset to work properly in our application when mail are up and running. First we must change the mail templates to the correct domain and write a text that match. The one that comes with the default will use your.site.url as the domain. There are two pages you need to edit, the first is "passwordresetmailsubject" that holds the mails subject and the second the "passwordresetmail" that holds the body of the mail. The reason for this split is due to we use the build in functionality that comes with Django. As described earlier, you must use the html editor to change these pages. Right click on page and "Open html designer". For the subject you must use text only, no HTML.

What is important when you edit the body to surround the body with [% autoescape off %] [% endautoescape %] tags and the token livetext. The rest of the content is up to you.

URLs used by password reset