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Hide button on screen based on group/role

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Rudy

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Posts: 5

7/8/2010 4:43 PM

Need some assistance. I have a button on the HR11 screen that will launch a webpage. This works fine. But, we are rolling out in a phased approach to 40+ offices, 1-2 at a time and the powers that be do not want anyone seeing the button until it is their turn to go live. We are talking about 2-4 people per branch. Using the hammer approach I was able to get the code working below but it requires me to add user IDs every time a new office goes live. This requires a lot of extra red tape going thru QA and production control not to mention the extra coding on 5 screens that we have the button on.
I am looking for a way to put the users in a role or group and be able to authenticate them in that role or group, but can’t seem to find a way. If I use portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("???") for group or role then it brings back only one out of the several that they are in. So it is not a guarantee that I get the group that I would use for the button group/role.

Questions: 1) is there any way to loop through all of their groups/roles to match a particular one. 2) Is there a better mousetrap than the one I am using below?
Thanks, Rudy

Code:
function FORM_OnAfterDataInit()
{var str1="UserID1,UserID2,UserID3,UserID3 ";
var UserId=portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("id"); //gets logged in user ID //alert(portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("group"));
//UserId="u3lxd";
var iOk=str1.indexOf(UserId); //searches for a string w/in a string
if (iOk==-1)
{
var objButton = lawForm.getFormElement("push11");
objButton.value=""; //hides button on screen
}
}

David Williams

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Posts: 1127

7/8/2010 4:50 PM

Can you add a Service to their Lawson Security "Manage Identies" (like ProductLine_REQUESTER) and do a quick look up to see if the user logged in has the value that indicates they should see the button?

John Henley

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Posts: 3348

7/8/2010 4:59 PM

What about their Portal Role?

Rudy

Basic Member

Posts: 5

7/8/2010 5:04 PM

When I add the below code, i get a blank value. I went in to the manage identities and did not see anywhere to add anything to ProductLine_REQUESTER.

var ValidUser=portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("ProductLine_REQUESTER");
alert(ValidUser);

Rudy

Basic Member

Posts: 5

7/8/2010 5:06 PM

Also, do you have any idea where I can get a list of all of the elements that I can bring back using: portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("??????");

Gary Davies

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Posts: 248

7/8/2010 5:20 PM

Hi Rudy, still struggling with this one huh? Do not try to add anything to the REQUESTER agent. That is predefined for use in RSS. The suggestion was to create a new agent similar to that and populate it. Not practical because you will have to maintain the values when it is already there in your groups.

Did you try what I suggested previously of calling servlet/Profile and parsing the group attributes out of the XML returned?

Rudy

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Posts: 5

7/8/2010 6:34 PM

Did you try what I suggested previously of calling servlet/Profile and parsing the group attributes out of the XML returned?

No. was unable to find any examples to get a start. Thanks.

Rudy

Basic Member

Posts: 5

7/13/2010 7:49 PM

Finally got it to work by parsing out the XML data from the servlet/Profile? servlet as mentioned above by Gary. I am new to JS so the code could probably be a little tighter.
function FORM_OnAfterDataInit()
{
var bOk=FindGroup();
if (bOk==false)
{
var objButton = lawForm.getFormElement("push11");
objButton.value="";

}
}

function FindGroup()
{
var sProdLine=portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("productline");
var bDisplay = false
var sTarget_Group="myGroup"
var sServer="";
var sDomain="test.local";

switch (sProdLine) {
case "PROD9":
sDomain="company.net";
break;
case "QA9":
sServer="qa-";
break;
default:
sServer="dev-";
}

var sDME="http://"+sServer+"hrportal."+sDomain+"/servlet/Profile?";
var vDMEInfo = portalWnd.httpRequest(sDME);
var oRecs = vDMEInfo.getElementsByTagName("ATTR");

//alert("length=" + oRecs.length);
for (var i = 0; i < oRecs.length; i++) {
if (oRecs.getAttribute("value")==sTarget_Group)
{
bDisplay=true
//alert(i+"--"+oRecs.getAttribute("name")+"="+oRecs.getAttribute("value"));
}
}

return (bDisplay);
}

David Williams

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Posts: 1127

7/14/2010 4:29 PM

This actually met a need I had so I appreciate you figuring it out. I found that I had to revise your script to indicate the record number but otherwise it worked great.

// if (oRecs[i].getAttribute("value")==sTarget_Group)

Thanks

David Williams

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