best practices for page redirects on load?

Bishop · 2024-02-27T02:26:33.645+00:00

It's very hard to edit the site when you do page redirects when someone isn't logged in.What is best practice for making this tolerable/workable?

Bishop
2 years ago
It's very hard to edit the site when you do page redirects when someone isn't logged in.

What is best practice for making this tolerable/workable?
@Bishop
It's very hard to edit the site when you do page redirects when someone isn't logged in.

What is best practice for making this tolerable/workable?
the_guy
2 years ago
You can simply check the current URL, if it is toddle.dev do not redirect

You could enable/disable this using a variable so you can switch behavior
the_guy
2 years ago
yoelfdz
2 years ago
Agree, I usually create an admin control pannel to enable or disable things like that
the_guy
2 years ago
Expanded by the variable

Use_editor_Redirect = true

means you will redirect even in the editor.
To turn it off, set it to false
the_guy
2 years ago
I just realised the setup doesnt work becuase the hostname is different in the UI preview compared to actually running the function within the project

UI Preview uses toddle.dev while the Project actually runs on its toddle.site subdomain

Team toddle
Andreas Møller
2 years ago
This is a bug. we will look into it 🙂
the_guy
2 years ago
@Bishop
For now, just check the variable like this until hostname actually returns toddle.dev
Andreas Møller
2 years ago
Yes that is a good temprary fix.
@Andreas Møller
This is a bug. we will look into it 🙂
the_guy
2 years ago
Thanks, is there a way to check if you are in the editor reliably if hostname doesnt work as intended?
Andreas Møller
2 years ago
You want to check window.top.location.hostname this would require a custom formula

function getTopFrameHostname() {
return window.top.location.hostname;
}
the_guy
2 years ago
I tried that, it returns null
the_guy
2 years ago
I already have a suspicion that custom formulas arent available by the time the page is loaded.
I have seen different things now that lead me to this assumption, this is one of them.

Creating a "flatten object" function and using this is another one that I mentioned in general.
I can make a more detailed video/description if that helps
the_guy
2 years ago
When you show the top frame hostname on the page, it says the hostname in the HTML Tree but NULL on the Preview
the_guy
2 years ago
Same if you would assign top frame hostname to a variable
mdxwired
1 year ago
I am also still getting bizarre results trying to identify whether my page is executing within the UI or not. In the attached screen-grab you can see that I am checking hostname and in-formula as well as what the editor indicates the current value of the simple text field (the green circles) that I set up to debug with... it's correct. But, then the actual value displayed in-page (red circle) shows the run-time hostname. Thoughts?

best practices for page redirects on load?

Bishop

the_guy

the_guy

yoelfdz

the_guy

the_guy

Andreas Møller

the_guy

Andreas Møller

the_guy

Andreas Møller

the_guy

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the_guy

the_guy

mdxwired