Variable visible only to people in certain groups?

[Sandy7]

Hello,

I recently asked this question and got some feedback but unfortunately I still cannot get this to work so I am reaching out again..

Hello,

I have a catalog item and I am trying to make a variable (request_type) visible only when the logged in user is part of a specific group (Senior Director Enterprise Group). 

I have tried doing this using a script includes as well as an on-load client script. I will post my code for both below. However, this is not working. 

Here is the script include (I have client callable selected):

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

    validateLoggedUserGroup: function() {
           return gs.getUser().isMemberOf('97209ba71bad5d58142dc9192a4bcbff');
    },

    type: 'validateMember'
});

Here is the Client Script (I have tried request_type multiple different ways (request_type'; I also tied ('request_type')..

function onLoad() {
     var ga = new GlideAjax('validateMember');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'validateLoggedUserGroup');
    ga.getXML(checkGroups);
}


 function checkGroups(response) {
        var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");
        var variablesToHide = ('request_type'); // Enter your variable backend Name which you want to hide
        
if(answer == 'false')//If logged in user IS NOT part of the group
{
            for (var i = 0; i < variablesToHide.length; i++) {
                g_form.setDisplay(variablesToHide[i], false);
            }
 }   

    }

Any idea how to make this work? thanks everyone!

[AnirudhKumar]

Hello Sandy,

The variable variablesToHide is not an array here, so variablesToHide.length and variablesToHide[i] are not going to give the results we need.

Replace your checkGroups function with below code and verify if the core logic works:

function checkGroups(response) {
        var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");
        var variablesToHide = ('request_type'); // Enter your variable backend Name which you want to hide
        
if(answer == 'false')//If logged in user IS NOT part of the group
{
             g_form.setDisplay('request_type', false);
}   

  }

[Sandy7]

Hello, thanks so much for your help. I tried this and still no success. Any ideas?

[AnirudhKumar]

Some points here:

- Is the field supposed to hide and not hiding?

- Did you alert out the answer variable and check if you are getting true and false based on if the user is part of the group?

function checkGroups(response) {
        var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");
alert(answer);
        
if(answer == 'false')//If logged in user IS NOT part of the group
{
             g_form.setDisplay('request_type', false);
}   

  }

3. Try replacing 

g_form.setDisplay('request_type', false);

with

g_form.setVisible('request_type', 'false');

4. Is the group (97209ba71bad5d58142dc9192a4bcbff) active? Try giving the name of the group, (silly, but try)

[Sandy7]

Hello! thanks for helping. So I updated accordingly, and the alert gives me "false" during testing - so it does show the logged in user is not part of that group. 

And you are correct - the request_type field is supposed to be hidden if the user is not part of that group but that is not working. I also confirmed the group is active. 

Thanks!