Update CRM Portal Sign In Link/Button

CRM Portal provides various ways to authenticate a User. This includes Local Login and various other Federated Login options. Depending on requirements one can enable any or all the login options.

By default, clicking on the Portal ‘Sign In’ link on the homepage, the user is redirected to an inbuilt login page where one can login using Local Login or any Federated Login (if enabled) (refer screenshot below)

Each Federated Login option is displayed as a button on the right hand side.

Having multiple Login options, definitely has its advantages however there could be situation wherein the Portal may have been enabled for only 1 External/Federated Login. In such a situation it would not be a good user experience to have to user browse to the above login page and then click the appropriate button which would then take him to the Login page for the Federation provider

Although there is no customization option within the Portal, to customize the ‘Sign In’ link on the Portal homepage, the Portal does provide a configuration option to redirect the user directly to the Federation Provider’s Login page.

To enable this go to Portal – Site Setting and create new record with the name
“Authentication/Registration/LoginButtonAuthenticationType”
Value should be set to the URL of the Federation Provider

For more details on the above setting click here