Change property value from other application scope

[David Berdasco]

Hi,

¿Is possible to change the property values of a custom scoped application from another custom scoped application?

For example, I have:

• A custom scoped application, Test, with a property: test.my_property
• A second custom scoped application, Test2
• Both of them with ‘Tracking’ as Runtime Access Tracking.

Now, I go to the Scripts – Background and, with the Test2 scope selected, run:

gs.setProperty("test.my_property", "new value!");

But It doesn’t work:

Security restricted: Execute operation on API 'Glide API: properties' from scope 'Test2' was granted and added to 'Test2' cross scope privileges

Security restricted: Access to property 'test.my_property' from scope 'Test2' has been refused due to the property's cross-scope access policy.

So, I try to create the cross scope privilege:

• Source Scope: Test2
• Target Scope: Test
• Target Name: sys_properties
• Target Type: Table
• Operation: Write
• Status: allowed

But without success:

Security restricted: Access to property 'test.my_property' from scope 'Test2' has been refused due to the property's cross-scope access policy.

¿Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

[Andrew Barnes - · Accepted solution]

Greetings David,

 The system properties table itself prevents the cross-scope write operation. You would have to change the application - all scopes - write option on the table to directly get around this. To indirectly get around this, you can in your Test application make a 'setProperty' api available to other scopes. 

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[David Berdasco]

Thanks Andrew!

Changing the write option on the table sys_properties still doesn't work (still raises the cross-scope message). But indeed this approach doesn't seem us the best one, so we use your indirect solution and it works fine.

Best regards