How to Link Users to a Specific Page Upon Sign In

#2: The Sign In URL

Since LSVT let’s you private label multiple Sign In Pages for your users, you need to indicate which Sign In Page you want to send you user to, this parameter in the URL is noted as “signInURL= ” and just copy and paste your Sign In Page URL here. I’ll use the ACME Demo example of: https://acmevt.lightspeedvt.com
So My URL so far will look like this:

https://vt.lightspeedvt.com/share/redirect.cfm?signInURL=https://acmevt.lightspeedvt.com

#3 The Destination URL

This is the URL that you want your user to link right to, and add this parameter to your URL, and be sure to put the “&” sign in the URL, this tells the web browser that there is another URL parameter included in this URL next. This parameter in the URL is noted as “dest=” for “destination” and just copy and paste your destination URL after it. This can be any page in LSVT; a course, a chapter, the File Vault, etc. If a user hits this URL and they don’t have access to that page or piece of content, it will merely tell them that they don’t have access. This is obviously so you can’t accidentally, or purposely, link users to content they don’t have privileges to. Here is an example URL to a chapter in the ACME Demo: https://vt.lightspeedvt.com/trainingCenter/course/36851/chapter/193776

Final Result

So, my final URL with all three parts looks like this:

https://vt.lightspeedvt.com/share/redirect.cfm?signInURL=https://acmevt.lightspeedvt.com&dest=https://vt.lightspeedvt.com/trainingCenter/course/36851/chapter/193776

The final result when a user clicks on this URL is that they will be taken to the Sign In Page, then once they successfully sign in, it will auto advance them to this URL.

Trick: Use a tool like Bitly.com to shorten your URLs for sending as an SMS TXT. The URL above that has been shortened by Bitly looks like this.

Note

if you are wanting to send a user to a deep link page that has lots of URL parameters in the deep link, like this example, where it will go to a Users Report Card for a Specific Chapter:

Desired Destination is:

https://vt.lightspeedvt.com/report_card/report_card.cfm?Action=ShowChapter&WhichUsers=000000&ChID=000000&CoID=000000

(I used “000000” for all of the unique ID numbers in the URL above)

You will want to URL Encode the “dest=” value, or the “Destination URL” so that the special characters of: “?” (question mark) and “&” (amperssand) and “=” (equal sign) are encoded. Here is an easy web based tool where you can ‘paste’ in your Destination URL, then click ENCODE and then ‘copy’ the resulting Encoded URL and use it.

https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

And the result will look like this:

https%3A%2F%2Fvt.lightspeedvt.com%2Freport_card%2Freport_card.cfm%3FAction%3DShowChapter%26WhichUsers%3D000000%26ChID%3D000000%26CoID%3D000000

So then your full example will look like this:

https://vt.lightspeedvt.com/share/redirect.cfm?signInURL=https://lsvtlogin.lightspeedvt.com&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fvt.lightspeedvt.com%2Freport_card%2Freport_card.cfm%3FAction%3DShowChapter%26WhichUsers%3D000000%26ChID%3D000000%26CoID%3D000000

How to Link Users to a Specific Page Upon Sign In

#1: Redirect URL function

#3 The Destination URL

Final Result

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