I am working on a game which requires people to login under whichever team they are on. Each team is made up of several departments.

However people probably won't know what team they belong to the first time they play. It isn't possible to automatically associate names with teams - there is no list of all the potential players. So we constructed an entry page which lists all the departments and which teams they belong to.

It required creating a little script to pass the name of the team along to the game login page.

Presumably people WILL know what department they are in, and will be able to select their team in that manner.

The problem was, the team name has to be passed to Questionmark Perception's login page, since it requires the team name to send whatever points are earned to the appropriate team.

I used the following javascript to set a hidden field "GROUP" on Questionmark's login page, when a player clicks the team link on the Entry page.

The team link opens the login page then passes the variable, so they can type in their name and start the game. I probably could have had the script submit both name and group through the login page, but decided against it. The login page is the only one that can pass the variable to the game - there are security features that ensure it only comes from that page. And I wanted them to be properly awed by the cool graphics on the login page.

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> //variable teamName has no value before being clicked var teamName=''; //this function opens the login page then waits 1000 miliseconds, // then populates the hidden field with the value of teamName function openwindow() { winHandle=window.open('http://url.of.game.login/page','',''); setTimeout("populate()",1000); } //this is the function that populates the variable GROUP with the value of teamName function populate(){ winHandle.document.login.GROUP.value=teamName; } </script>

Each team name link is set up like this:

<!-- The link is a null link, with an onClick event handler. On clicking the link, the variable "teamName" is set to whatever I have specified (the name of each team) then the function "openwindow" is executed, which first opens the login page, then populates its hidden field "GROUP" with the value of "teamName". --> <a href="#" onclick="teamName='THE EAGLES'; openwindow();">THE EAGLES</a>