Get group membership in record producer script

[danielschmidt]

Hello,

i have got another problem today. We've crerated a record producer for all members of our company.

We added there 2 variable sets for a specific variable to be shown.

In the catalog script of the record producer did we put a onLoad function to change, what Variable should be displayed on behalf of a group membership. If somebody is a member of the group, he should see the 1st variable, if not, he should see the 2nd.

I got a solution for that by creating a role without any permissions, which is granted by the group. So i could use the "hasRole" function. Our system administrator told me today, that we can't set up groups with roles. So i have to modify the script now, to check if the user is a member of the group.

My script so far:

function onLoad() {
var isMember = g_user.hasRole('companyname_rolename');
if (isMember){
g_form.setDisplay('variable2', false);
g_form.setDisplay('variable1', true);
} else {
g_form.setDisplay('variable2', true);
g_form.setDisplay('variable1', false);
}
}

My problem now is, that i can't use the isMemberof function because it is a server script function. How can i get this script do what i want to?

It would be nice if somebody could explain me that. Thank you!

Best /Daniel

[Pradeep Sharma]

Hello Daniel,

You are right. isMemberof will work on the server side. So, in this case, you need to make a GlideAjax call and get the output at the client side.
Reference:

How to Write Smart GlideAjax Quickly

[danielschmidt]

Hello Pradeep,

i think i'll read this article and try to get some good javascript tutorials. I'm good at using Visual Basic, but javascript is a bit harder in my opinion. So i need to practise a bit more and get some good books about it.

Anyways, thanks for your link.

[ccajohnson]

1.   Create a Client Callable Script Include:

      Name: usrUtilsAjax

      Client callable: true

      Accessible from: All application scopes

      Script:

var usrUtilsAjax = Class.create();
usrUtilsAjax.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, {

       /**
         * Checks to see if a user is a member of a group
         *
         * @param           {string}   sysparm_grp   The sys_id or name of the group to check
         * @param           {string}   sysparm_usr   The sys_id of the User to check
         * @return         {boolean}   Returns true if the user is a member of the group,
         *                                               otherwise returns false
         */
       chkIsMember: function() {
               var grpID = this.getParameter('sysparm_grp');
               var usrID = this.getParameter('sysparm_usr');
               var result = gs.getUser.getUserByID(usrID).isMemberOf(grpID);
               return result;
       },

       type: 'usrUtilsAjax'
});

2.   Modify your onLoad Catalog Client Script:

function onLoad() {
               var ga = new GlideAjax('usrUtilsAjax');
               ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'chkIsMember');
               ga.addParam('sysparm_usr', g_user.userID);
               ga.addParam('sysparm_grp', 'sys_id_of_group');
               ga.getXML(setVisible);
       }
}

function setVisible(response) {
       var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer")
       if (answer == 'true') {
               g_form.setDisplay('variable2', false)
               g_form.setDisplay('variable1', true);
       } else {
               g_form.setDisplay('variable2', true)
               g_form.setDisplay('variable1', false);
       }
}

If you have any questions about how to build this, let us know.

[danielschmidt]

Hello Christopher,

thanks for your great work. I tried to implement this into our dev instance. But apparently it doesn't work well. After i impersonate to a user who is member of the group i get an error called "AbstractAjaxProcessor undefined, maybe missing global qualifier". My javascript knowledge isn't that good to debug what i did wrong. I didn't changed anything of your script include, i understand a bit whats happening there. I changed the variable names (obviously that wasn't the correct ones) and removed a "}" on the onLoad step. But it seems there is still a problem. Could you help me here please?

Best, Daniel