Tips or Best Practices Webhelp with ASP.NET Authentication

[lgschwind]

Does anyone have any documentation or best practices that you could point me to regarding publishing H&M webhelp site and securing with ASP.NET authentication?

[Tim Green]

We have no experience with this, but Help & Manual WebHelp doesn't have direct support for this per se. The most likely scenario is that you will only be able to authenticate on the level of the server folder in which your WebHelp is located. You would then have a separate ASP login page that would provide authorized users access to the folder. This would be all or nothing -- either they have access to the entire WebHelp or to none of it.

Providing access control to individual topics or parts of your WebHelp will not be possible. Even if you can add scripts to do it, it still wouldn't work, because the content would still be available via index keywords and search. WebHelp simply isn't built for that kind of granular access. Instead, you would have to build different versions of your WebHelp with different content for your different user groups and direct them to the appropriate version from your login page.