Determine if current session is the first time a user has logged in?

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Hi,

I’m interested in knowing if there’s a way to determine if a session is the first time a user has logged in. I’d like to direct people to a specific ondemand app/page if it’s the first time they’ve logged in. Is this possible? Or can I put a banner on the home page only for first time users?

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Not out of the box - but I think it’d be a nice feature to have! I made this ticket for the same.

I could imagine you writing an initializer and setting the MOTD_PATH or similar based on something - 0 files in their ~/ondemand/data directory? But that’s just an off the top hack that may work, but I think the scheme would still apply - determine if it’s an initial load in an initializer and reset/set some configs based off of that.

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Thanks Jeff!

Where are the initializers? Is there any documentation about how those work? I’d like to get a chance to look into this to see if I can come up with something that might help.

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Adding favorite paths works through an initializer. You can also search this discourse for other things (like creating custom queues and so on) with the initializer search string.

https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/customizations.html?highlight=initializer#add-shortcuts-to-files-menu

Rails gives us this facility to basically add/modify any functionality while the application starts up.

So you write any valid Ruby that could say change say the MOTD_PATH environment variable in-situ while it’s booting up before the MOTD is actually read.

if something
  ENV['MOTD_PATH'] = '/etc/some/folder/first_login_motd'
end
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