environment specific variables in pingfederate templates

Question

I am customizing a pingfederate temaplte (for login).

As part of this customization I would like to be able to have a java script variable that is dependent on the configuration of the form being used. Essentially to distinguish between a test and a live environment.

I'm trying to keep the templates in source control and not have duplicated code and also to be able to test configurations before I deploy.

I'd like to think that I could set a variable somewhere in the admin interface and get this exposed in the template, however I have found nothing in the documentation to suggest that this is possible.

Is there a way to do this, or a reasonable work around?

Answer 1

From the perspective of PingFederate itself, no. There are plenty of mechanisms in Javascript that you could use, like window.location.host to trigger CSS properties. You could even use the Velocity variable of $PingFedBaseURL to drive CSS properties.