Getting the current Cat Item in a User Criteria Script

[ron_tavares]

Is it possible to pull in the current Catalog Item in the advanced script of a User Criteria?   Why do I want to do that?   The customer has a requirement to be able to block certain users from certain Catalog Items for a period of time.   For example, John Smith is restricted from accessing the New Laptop Request until the end of August.   My thought is to create a custom "Request Blocking" table with three fields:

1) User: Reference to sys_user

2) Cat Item: Reference to sc_cat_item

3) Block End Date: Date field

Then create a User Criteria that would be added to all the Cat Items.   The Script would need to search the custom table for match on the following:

1) user = Current user

2) cat_item = The Cat Item that the User is trying to access

3) block_end_date > today

If it finds a match, it returns an answer of false, (meaning access denied).   Ff no match found, return true.

#1 & 3 are easy, but can't figure out how to pull in the Cat Item for #2, or if this is even possible.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

.ron

[DilipKumar DJ]

Hi Ron,

User criteria script will anyway run for the catalog item which executes the script right, hence you can localize this script to the catalog item which needs restriction.

[ron_tavares]

Hi DJ,

Thanks for your response, but I am not clear on what you are recommending.   Can you please clarify?   Are you suggesting that I should create a separate User Criteria for each Catalog Item?   I did think of that, but would prefer to create one User Criteria that can be used across all Cat Items, if possible.

[Raviteja K]

Hi Ron

Any solution for your issue. I too had same issue

[ron_tavares]

I never got a answer to this, so my guess is that it is not possible.   But I ended up taking a different approach.   If I remember correctly,   I created a custom table called Black List.   It had a reference field to Catalog Item, another reference field to User, and a blackout end date field.   I then created a Catalog Client Script, that whenever the Cat Item was opened, it would make an Ajax Call to a method that queries the black_list table for a match on User and Catalog Item, and the Black Out end date is still in the future.   If it found a match, it means the use does not have access to that Cat Item at that time.   So the script will display a message and redirect the user to the Service Catalog.