Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - How can I get user roles from the other database in xPages app?

~Wendy Asanusterettu

Sep 12, 2011, 4:49 PM

39 Posts

Re: How can I get user roles from the other database in xPages app?

Not sure if this is easy or not but you could

get the database you want the roles from

create a new acl object from that db

loop through the aclentries looking for the one you want

when you find it get the roles and look for the one you want.

using the ACL and ACLEntry classes

Thanks

-Toby

~Fritz Zekkimanobu

Sep 12, 2011, 7:04 PM

66 Posts

Re: How can I get user roles from the other database in xPages app?

I thought about this aproach but users are members of groups or 'goups inside groups', and such groups have a roles .... so its not such straightforward ... I definitely hoped for some easier solution based on existing API I missed so far.

~Sanjay Minresaski

Sep 13, 2011, 1:01 PM

31 Posts

Will queryAccessRoles do the trick ?

var title:string = database.getTitle();database

title = "For database \"" + title + "\" you have the following access roles: ";

var roles = database.queryAccessRoles(session.getUserName());

if (roles.isEmpty()) {

return title + " none";

} else {

for (var i=0; i<roles.length; i++) {

title = title + " " + roles[i];

return title;

~Fritz Zekkimanobu

Sep 14, 2011, 7:20 AM

66 Posts

Re: How can I get user roles from the other database in xPages app?

GREAT!! I havent noticed this under Database class, my shame :-(

~Hank Quetrepulnivu

Sep 14, 2011, 10:02 AM

53 Posts

Re: How can I get user roles from the other database in xPages app?

Make sure you read the help for queryaccessroles though - if a person is listed in the acl it won't check their group membership as well, so doesn't necessarily return all their roles. This may not be an issue for you, dependant on your ACL structure

To be honest, if you're creating your design in an app all the relevant access should be contained within that app. Of course document level security can be dealt with in the original database using reader fields, but if you're essentially trying to duplicate hide-whens on view links then you should think about re-creating that in the app with the design