DCT based on user group

Hi All,

I came across this situation where I have to create a shared DCT for 2 groups of user. (anyway, I am working with TeamSite 6.5 SP2 in a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition)

I got 8 container in the DCT, if user-group1 user launch the DCT, they can see and fillup fields in all 8 containers. if user-group2 user launch the DCT, they only can see 4 container out of the the 8.

I have some idea in my mind:

launching a popup windows to ask the author to choose their user group, and based on the popup page result, the DCT then will refresh and show or hide the container accordingly.
creating a field in DCT to ask the user-group (when the user 1st launch the DCT, they only see the user-group field), and after the user choose one of the group, the DCT auto refresh and render the container accordingly.
or is there anyway to detech the user-group automatically?

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Sailesh

Hi All,

I came across this situation where I have to create a shared DCT for 2 groups of user. (anyway, I am working with TeamSite 6.5 SP2 in a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition)

I got 8 container in the DCT, if user-group1 user launch the DCT, they can see and fillup fields in all 8 containers. if user-group2 user launch the DCT, they only can see 4 container out of the the 8.

I have some idea in my mind:
launching a popup windows to ask the author to choose their user group, and based on the popup page result, the DCT then will refresh and show or hide the container accordingly.
creating a field in DCT to ask the user-group (when the user 1st launch the DCT, they only see the user-group field), and after the user choose one of the group, the DCT auto refresh and render the container accordingly.
or is there anyway to detech the user-group automatically?

Better would be to use inline callout where by in your ipl file you can check the user under which group the user belongs to and show only those set of items

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Pawan

Better would be to use inline callout where by in your ipl file you can check the user under which group the user belongs to and show only those set of items

Hi,

The above mentioned approach is good enough if your user(s) doesn't change groups dynamically and the group pertaining to a user do not change frequently.

In case you have a requirement that a user will belong to more than one group, then you have to take care of that explicitly in your code.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Pawan

waikong

Better would be to use inline callout where by in your ipl file you can check the user under which group the user belongs to and show only those set of items

according to my understanding, inline callout is calling a perl script to populate the value into the item (e.g. checkbox value, dropdown selection.).

maybe you are refering to the formAPI? which is implement in Javascript? (TeamSite 6.5)

do you have any samples code to explain how to retrieve the username and user_group?