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~Fred Asatumiburynds
Jun 24, 2016, 9:22 AM
107 Posts

Working as designed

  • Category: Application Development
  • Platform: Windows
  • Release: 9.0.1
  • Role: Developer
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NotesACL.getEntry(String) can only find direct entries; see usage notes in Designer Help:
"If a person is not listed explicitly in the ACL, but is a member of a group listed in the ACL, getEntry does not find that person's name."

A possible workaround is to use NotesSession.evaluate(@UserNamesList), which should return a complete list of the current user's names, roles and groups the user is a member of.
~Fred Asatumiburynds
Jun 24, 2016, 1:54 PM
107 Posts
More info
First of all, there's a little (but important) flaw in my suggested workaround in that the quotes are missing around @UserNamesList.
Second, it might be necessary to provide a formula context to the evaluate method; i.e., pass a NotesDocument object as second argument.

Here's a corrected version:

var session:NotesSession = database.getParent();
var doc:NotesDocument = <your code here>;
var userNamesList = session.evaluate("@UserNamesList", doc) ;

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