Make a section read-only for some users

[hamidouche]

Hi,

I have 10 sections inside a form that I want to make READONLY (I must not hide the section) for some users with a specific role only.

For example: I have UserA with role A: he can only edit section 1,2,3,4,5 but the rest will be readonly for him

But for UserB with roleB, he can edit sections 1,2,3  and the rest will be readonly, etc  you get the idea

I know I cannot use UI policy to do this for the whole section but for fields only. The thing is: the sections have over 100 fields each. 

Can I use ACL* for this? if yes how?

Can I use a client script. In this case I have to run g_form.setReadOnly() on all the fields.

Thanks

[Prateek kumar]

ACL is the best way to do it.

But you would have to create as many ACL's depending on how many fields you have in that section.

[Aitor Cabello]

Hi,

I’ve seen that if you create a client script, loop through all the variables in the section, and then set them to read-only, it seems to work.

Client script (onLoad):



    var ga = new GlideAjax('XXXXXXXX');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'getVariableSection');
    ga.getXML(setReadOnlyVarSection);

    function setReadOnlyVarSection(response) {

        //var variablesArray = JSON.parse(answer);

        var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");

        var variablesArray = JSON.parse(answer);

        g_form.addInfoMessage(answer);
        g_form.addInfoMessage(variablesArray);

        variablesArray.forEach(function(varName) {
            g_form.setReadOnly(varName, true);
        });
    }
 
Script include:
 
    getVariableSection: function() {

        var variables = [];

        var grSUE = new GlideRecord('sys_ui_element');
        grSUE.addEncodedQuery("sys_ui_section=XXXXXXXXXX^element!=.split^ORelement=NULL^element!=.end_split^ORelement=NULL^element!=.begin_split^ORelement=NULL");
        grSUE.query();

        while (grSUE.next()) {
            variables.push(grSUE.getValue('element'));
        }

        return JSON.stringify(variables);
    },

Thanks in advance.

Regards.