AGO - Web Application configuration - Multiple logins

[jsomerville]

Configuring a web application, that is based on the iMap template, in ArcGIS Online sometimes results in re-logging in after each save.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Login to ArcGIS Online: http://maryland.maps.arcgis.com/home/content.html
2. Create and save a new Web Map
3. Click the Share button
4. Share to a group (e.g. State of Maryland iMap), but not to Everyone
5. Click Make a Web Application
6. Click Publish under iMap Base Template - Test
7. In the Share popup, enter a Title, Tags, etc., as required
8. Click Save & Publish
9. Click "go to the item now" link
10. Click Configure App
11. Sign in
12. Change the Theme: to Green
13. Click Save

Q1: Are you prompted to login again?

1. Click Cancel
2. Click My Content
3. Check the box next to the Web Map from Step 2
4. Click Share
5. Share to Everyone
6. Click on the Web Mapping Application created in Step 8 above
7. Click Share
8. Share to Everyone
9. Click Configure App
10. Change the Theme: to MD iMap Basic
11. Click Save

Q2: Were you prompted to login again?

If the answers to the questions were yes, and no, respectively, it could be that the template residing at a separate location (DoIT server) is not able to "remember" your login after clicking Save in Step 13, upon page refresh. Whereas, the templates residing on arcgis.com might have access to your web session, and thus can "remember" your permissions and not prompt for a login after each Save.

[SSporik]

My results:

Q2: yes Q1: no

Strange thing, After I tried to configure the app, and change the theme to green, it indeed prompted me to sign-in. I canceled without signing in and the app still saved the change. So the next time I tried to configure the app once it was shared, it loaded with the green theme. Not sure if this is what you experienced or expected. I would have thought that canceling would have negged the changes, but it seems like logging in after a save is just to see the app, not let changes take effect.