condition script on content management - dynamic block

LG2 · ‎01-17-2014

Hi,

We need to restrict access on our ess portal to people who are members of one of three possible departments (not roles or groups) and admin users.

We've looked at doing this by adding a condition to the block - dynamic content, by checking the box "conditional" and displaying the condition script field.

Whatever we try it seems to block everyone regardless of department? We've tried simplifying it but still no joy

We've tried various versions along the lines of:

gs.getUser().getDepartmentID() == '40eda940ac5c81008f7cf71e9a30107f'

Any help appreciated - we are currently on the Berlin release.

thanks

rgm276 · ‎10-15-2014

Hmm, I would think that would work if you removed the ( and made it a double == compare

but it did not work for me that way either, however I was able to create a variable using the glide record to grab the company name and use that to compare with, and you can use this method to grab any field off of the user record myvar = user.fieldname;

<g:evaluate>

var user = new GlideRecord('sys_user');

user.get(gs.getUserID());

mycompany = user.company;

</g:evaluate>

<j:if test="${mycompany=='company_sysid'}">

Add Your Company Text Here

</j:if>

but you may want also prefer to use the switch statement, if you have numerous companies , rather than lots of IF

<g:evaluate>

var user = new GlideRecord('sys_user');

user.get(gs.getUserID());

var mycompany = user.company;

</g:evaluate>

<j:switch on="${mycompany}" >

<j:case value="2d35a86ff4b381849c7dcf0aa470a547">

<br />Company 1 Name Text

</j:case>

<j:case value="2d35a76aa4b381849c7dcf0aa470a546">

<br />Company 2 Other Text

</j:case>

</j:switch>

and sorry; I do not know of any other way to do a global replace or change, other than having to edit of each page

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Michael Kaufman · ‎01-19-2014

Try this in your conditional statement, it worked on my system (except with a different sys_id)

checkDepartment();

function checkDepartment() {

if (gs.getUser().getDepartmentID() == '40eda940ac5c81008f7cf71e9a30107f') {

answer = true;

}

else {

answer = false;

}

LG2 · ‎01-20-2014

Absolute star! Thank you - it worked a treat! Happy bunnies all round...

jas101 · ‎10-08-2014

Hi Mike,

We would like to do something similar whereby our ESS page footer is different so that depending on the user's company the relevant help desk number appears (i.e. we will have multiple footers).

I have used your script and modified it to include 'Company' instead however I have noticed that when unchecking Active on the original standalone footer we had, it is still showing on all pages and I don't understand why?

The footer block type is 'Static content'.

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers,

Daniel

rgm276 · ‎10-08-2014

We've made our footer a dynamic content block, and have differences based on group and\or roles

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">

Common Footer Code Would Go Here, i.e. you could just copy/past your static HTML code here

<j:if test="${gs.getUser().isMemberOf('GroupName')}">

add some additional "static" footer code here for this group

</j:if>

<j:if test="${gs.hasRole('admin')}">

add some more "static" content if this user has a particular role in the organization

</j:if>

</j:jelly>