How to get current user role in JS Script shape?

Christian
2 years ago #30097

Hi all

rather a short question, but I do not find this information in the documentation: how to get the roles of the currently logged in user in the JS Script shape in the process designer? In the code snippets, there is only “getUsername”…

Thank you!
Christopher Steinbach
2 years ago #30101

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Hi Christian,

I don’t think that this is possible. The user API in a script shape is limited because of security reasons.

You can solve this by using a business object to do this kind of request for your user.
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2 years ago #30106

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Hi Christian,

you can use the methode “getCurrentUserRole” of the Server Side Business Object “ITIZ_User” which is availabe in the Simplifier standard content.
As an input parameter you can name a role and the business object will return a boolean whether the executing user has this role or not.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Dan
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2 years ago #30110

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Hi Christian,

yes you summarized it correctly.
Inside the process designer you’d have to use this business object and save the result (true / false) as a variable.

For the UI you want to change, you can then check if this value is true or false and print display the desired text. You can do this using condition and UI action shapes or use expression binding which could look something like this:

{= ${variableHolder>/UserHasRoleXY} ? ‘user has role’ : ‘user does not have role’}

Best regards,

Dan
Christian
2 years ago #30111

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Great, thank you, everything works fine now.
Christian
2 years ago #30102

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Hi C,

thank you for the quick answer. A client-side business object would also be fine, but also here I do not find an approach. I would need this role information to adapt the UI (change some text labels etc., no security related information is impacted).

Thank you!
Christian
2 years ago #30108

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Hi Dan

thank you for the answer. So summarized: I get the user role information only in the backend for security reasons. Thus, I have to implement a logic in the frontend that fetches this information from the backend, right?

Thanks and best regards

Christian