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Authenticating a WebEx attendee

lushanthan
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Is there a way to authenticate an attendee using the XML Api?

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jaydem
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Cisco Employee

Hi Lushanthan,

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?  Attendees don't generally have an "account" on the site like a host would.  Generally the attendee is registering for a meeting/session and (if registration is required) receives a specific registration ID once they have been approved.  There is an option (would need to be enabled for your site by your account manager) to allow attendee accounts on the site.  This would then allow you to create specific user accounts for attendees.  Either your account manager or WebEx Tech Support can provide some additional info on attendee accounts and how they function if you are interested.

Regards,

Jayde

Hi Jaydem,

Thanks for the response. We are trying to integrate WebEx Meeting Center into a custom built Learning portal. Our client is worried about unauthorized access to students (attendees )who may try to login to the live lecture if they have the attendee url (As authorized students who have attendee url may send their attendee links to others). What is the best option to achieve this.

If the site admin can enable to add attendee accounts, How do you add an account through the XML API? I just found two methods. One is AddAttendee method (Meeting Service) which adds an attendee to an existing meeting and the other one is createUser method (User Service) which enables site administrator to create host accounts. I couldn't find a method to create an attendee account?

Hi Lushanthan,

Honestly I'm not sure attendee accounts would be useful in your situation.  With attendee accounts (which again would first need to be enabled for your site by your account manager) it would require each attendee to log into the site.  Once enbled you'd create the accounts via CreateUser and specifying it as <attendeeOnly>TRUE</attendeeOnly> for the <privilege>.  This however would not prevent person_a from forwarding their invite to person_b if person_b also has an account on the site.  Ideally this should be handled through registration and registration IDs but requires more advanced registration capabilities provided by Training Center and Event Center.  Meeting Center is not really designed with advanced registration in mind.  Registration IDs are unique to each attendee and limit the use to that specific registered attendee.  Again, this would only be applicable to Training Center or Event Center.  Would hiding the link or protecting it via authentication through the integration or another means be an option?  That way the attendee is vetted before they can click on the link?

Regards,

Jayde

Hi Jaydem,

To be honest we were first planning to load the attendee and the host url inside an iframe and trigger the webex client. But we could not do that as the url browser redirected to the webex page when we tried to load url inside the iframe.

However if we have attendee accounts we can authenticate them from our site and redirect to the attendee page. However we are not planning to give usernames and passwords to attendee's hand. We will have their webex username and passwords in our database and we will authenticate them when they login to our site using our system credentials of them. Is that a fine method to proceed with?

Another question is whether we can restrict a meeting to have only unique users to be in a meeting at a time. ?

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