[GROUPS] followup

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 11535
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texte = To close out my earlier question and possibly help others along:We wanted to restrict catalog entry displays to only those who had group access which matched that of the item to be displayed. In other words, each item has a group associated with it and that group should be granted access. The easiest solution would have been if there were a [groups] tag like the global [UserName] tag to test against, but there isn't.Thanks to all the help and suggestions we got here we got the WebDNA figured out and it is relatively simple (in retrospect :-)All that's needed is [foundItems] [SHOWIF [lookup db=/webcatalog/users.db& value=[Uppercase][UserName][/Uppercase]& LookInField=user&returnfield=groups& notFound=TextNotFound]^[PW_GROUP]] ... [/SHOWIF] [/founditems]where [PW_GROUP] is the field of the found item which contains the group which should be granted access.I hope I copied all of that in correctly ... it's been a long but fruitful day !-Sven_____________________________________________________________________ Sven U. Grenander BeeHive Technologies, Inc. http://www.bzzzzzz.com - with a WebCam in Pasadena, California_____________________________________________________________________ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: [GROUPS] followup (Grant Hulbert 1997)
[GROUPS] followup (Sven U. Grenander 1997)

To close out my earlier question and possibly help others along:We wanted to restrict catalog entry displays to only those who had group access which matched that of the item to be displayed. In other words, each item has a group associated with it and that group should be granted access. The easiest solution would have been if there were a [groups] tag like the global [username] tag to test against, but there isn't.Thanks to all the help and suggestions we got here we got the WebDNA figured out and it is relatively simple (in retrospect :-)All that's needed is [founditems] [SHOWIF [lookup db=/webcatalog/users.db& value=[uppercase][username][/Uppercase]& LookInField=user&returnfield=groups& notFound=TextNotFound]^[PW_GROUP]] ... [/SHOWIF] [/founditems]where [PW_GROUP] is the field of the found item which contains the group which should be granted access.I hope I copied all of that in correctly ... it's been a long but fruitful day !-Sven_____________________________________________________________________ Sven U. Grenander BeeHive Technologies, Inc. http://www.bzzzzzz.com - with a WebCam in Pasadena, California_____________________________________________________________________ Sven U. Grenander

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[GROUPS] followup

1997

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