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Change property value from other application scope

David Berdasco — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:25:48 GMT

Hi,

¿Is possible to change the property values of a custom scoped application from another custom scoped application?

For example, I have:

A custom scoped application, Test, with a property: test.my_property
A second custom scoped application, Test2
Both of them with ‘Tracking’ as Runtime Access Tracking.

Now, I go to the Scripts – Background and, with the Test2 scope selected, run:

gs.setProperty("test.my_property", "new value!");

But It doesn’t work:

Security restricted: Execute operation on API 'Glide API: properties' from scope 'Test2' was granted and added to 'Test2' cross scope privileges

Security restricted: Access to property 'test.my_property' from scope 'Test2' has been refused due to the property's cross-scope access policy.

So, I try to create the cross scope privilege:

Source Scope: Test2
Target Scope: Test
Target Name: sys_properties
Target Type: Table
Operation: Write
Status: allowed

But without success:

Security restricted: Access to property 'test.my_property' from scope 'Test2' has been refused due to the property's cross-scope access policy.

¿Suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Change property value from other application scope

Andrew Barnes - — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:42:59 GMT

Greetings David,

The system properties table itself prevents the cross-scope write operation. You would have to change the application - all scopes - write option on the table to directly get around this. To indirectly get around this, you can in your Test application make a 'setProperty' api available to other scopes.

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Re: Change property value from other application scope

David Berdasco — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:41:49 GMT

Thanks Andrew!

Changing the write option on the table sys_properties still doesn't work (still raises the cross-scope message). But indeed this approach doesn't seem us the best one, so we use your indirect solution and it works fine.

Best regards