How to hide widget based on user role

[tricial]

So I have searched the community near and far and have not been able to find a solution.

I have cloned the ICON Link widget and need to now set the visibility of this based on the logged in user having a specific role.

If they have the role show the widget, if they don't have the role don't show the widget.

It seems simple enough, but I am new to ng-if angular and the data. options.schema stuff

I really could use some help with some sample code on how to achieve this.

Thank you very much

[tricial]

What I have tried is to create option

always_show (boolean)

Server Script:

(function(){

var gr = $sp.getInstanceRecord();

data.href = $sp.getMenuHREF(gr);

data.target = options.target || "";

var lUser = gs.getUserID();

var gRole = new GlideRecord('sys_user_has_role');

gRole.addQuery('role', 'sp_password_services');

gRole.addQuery('user', 'lUser');

gRole.query();

if(gRole.next()){

options.always_show = true;

}

})();

Added to the top <div in html the following:

<div ng-if="{{::options.always_show == 'true'}}">

It's not working 😞

[Jaspal Singh]

Hi Patricia,

Easiest option is to open up the widget form & specify the role as marked below.

Thanks,

Jaspal Singh

Hit Like or Correct on the impact of response.

[tricial]

Hi Jaspal,

I tried that and when I impersonate a user with NO ROLE they still see the widget on the portal

So I went back to the widget on the form and the role was cleared out

I set it to

When I go back to look at it the roles are gone

[tricial]

Jaspal,

I created a new widget from the copy icon link widget, and set the role on this new widget.

It seems to have worked.

I think the problem is that I had multiple instances of the copy of icon link widget on the page and it was not working.

At least I am assuming thats what it was.

I am going to test this theory by trying to add a role again to the copy icon link widget, I have 2 instances of this on the portal.

If it does not hide it based on role then I will venture to guess that is the case.

Will let you know what I find out.

Thank you for your reply

Tricia