iw_role and TeamSite 6.7.1

This is our environment:
Windows 2003 Enterprise
TS 6.7.1
MetaTagger 4.1.1
OpenDeploy 6.1

Just recently, we upgraded TS from 6.7.0 to 6.7.1. This was a fresh install (6.7.0 was completely removed and 6.7.1 was installed).

This code used to work on 6.7.0 (within our workflow code) and we were able to extract the 'role' of the TeamSite 'user':
($user, $role, $branch, $areavpath) = (__VALUE__('iw_user'),
__VALUE__('iw_role'),
__VALUE__('iw_branch'),
__VALUE__('iw_workarea'));
Utilities::writelog("role: " . $role);

Since the upgrade to 6.7.1, the __VALUE__('iw_role') doesn't return anything.

Would anyone know what is causing this?

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nipper

With the new flex roles, there will be some changes required. I noticed some issues with my DCRs that were specific to certain roles.

Check the docs on the flex roles to see how you code will need to change.

Andy

Nicholas

One thing I noticed that is, previously iw_role was a system variable and now there is nothing related to system variables in new manuals though during 670, workflow builder was not there so it was working fine with 670 and with 671 it is not there.

This is just a guess.

Hope this will help

Thanks Nicholas

RajatChopra

We have manually added all the role files over from our previous installation as a workaround. It works fine now.

-R

boskovuk

With the new flex roles, there will be some changes required. I noticed some issues with my DCRs that were specific to certain roles.

Check the docs on the flex roles to see how you code will need to change.

Andy

Flex roles - that was a good pointer.

This module has several interesting routines:
X:\iw-home\iw-perl\vendor\lib\TeamSite\Flexroles.pm

I had to make a call to is_user_in_roles() method. This is the extra code we have to include now:
my $isAuthor = TeamSite::Flexroles::is_user_in_roles($user, $areavpath, "author");

In my specific case, I am just inquiring if the $user has 'author' 'role' on this $areavpath. The third argument could be an array (with all possible 'roles').

Thanks guys!

Pawan

Flex roles - that was a good pointer.

This module has several interesting routines:
X:\iw-home\iw-perl\vendor\lib\TeamSite\Flexroles.pm

I had to make a call to is_user_in_roles() method. This is the extra code we have to include now:
my $isAuthor = TeamSite::Flexroles::is_user_in_roles($user, $areavpath, "author");

Thanks, for throwing some light with example. All should appreciate such effort.