This would be huge for us. When we have clients on the production floor that should automatically be up and logged in all the time, not having this functionality is frustrating.

We have made extensive use of the vision "retarget" function back in V7 and REALLY need the same type of functionality to maintain some semblance of consistency as we port, or create, projects into Perspective in V8. I get Joel's comments, but it's software.. nothing is impossible. The Ignition server is launching the Perspective session, it can do whatever it wants, including passing along existing credentials on a system.perspective.navigate call - if IA really wanted to...

Maybe they don't and never will want to for security reasons, or maybe it'd only work with certain types of providers - but it is NOT impossible.

Maybe this is the same point that Joel Specht is making. But I don't see how this would be possible. With federated identity, the whole point is that Ignition/Perspective doesn't handle passwords.

Is the goal here to customize the Ignition IdP web app's look and feel?

system.perspective.login() will never take credentials as input as that would violate the basic contract between Perspective (the relying party in OIDC-speak; service provider in SAML-speak) and the Identity Provider configured with the Project.

PLEASE DO THIS.

also i would extend the params to: user, password, role

so you could check, if the user has the required role, to use a prespective project.