Getting site specific user groups

Hi,

I have two customer sites and each has its own login criteria. I am using Active directory for authentication.authorisation.

In the login action class, when I say the following code, I am seeing all user groups irrespective of site context.

Set userGroups = currentUser.getParents(userGroupEntityType, false);

I want to to see site specific user groups only. any ideas, please.

-Sridhar

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Al_Daniel

Quoted Sridhar Mamidi (smamidi@vadyas.com) on 2011/08/29 15:59:

Hi,

I have two customer sites and each has its own login criteria. I am using Active directory for authentication.authorisation.

In the login action class, when I say the following code, I am seeing all user groups irrespective of site context.

Set userGroups = currentUser.getParents(userGroupEntityType, false);

I want to to see site specific user groups only. any ideas, please.

-Sridhar

Hello Sridhar,

com.epicentric.site.Site.getAllUserGroups()

Returns a collection of standard (non-system) user groups associated with this site. Standard user groups that fall into the following categories are included in the returned collection: 1. Created in the site console 2. Shared from server into this site 3. Shared from another site.

Then take the intersection with the set returned by com.epicentric.user.User.getParents().

Set parentGroups = user.getParents(userGroupEntityType, false);

Collection siteGroups = site.getAllUserGroups();

parentGroups.retainAll(siteGroups);

I haven't tested and you may need to do some casting to get Collection.retainAll() to work. You could also loop through the parent groups and remove any that are not contained in the Collection of site groups to find the intersection.

Regards

Alex

Sridhar_Mamidi

Thanks Alex!

Sorry for not mentioning the VAP version I am using and it is 7.4.

I do not find this method site.getAllUserGroups() in 7.4

-Sridhar

Al_Daniel

Quoted Sridhar Mamidi (smamidi@vadyas.com) on 2011/08/30 12:26:

Thanks Alex!

Sorry for not mentioning the VAP version I am using and it is 7.4.

I do not find this method site.getAllUserGroups() in 7.4

-Sridhar

Hello Sridhar,

Site.getAllUserGroups() was added to the API in version 8.0. No such method exists for Site in 7.4.

Other methods for finding site groups appear to involve deprecated and/or non-published API. For example, you may be able to get the List of site groups with the following depricated method from the Portal 7.4 API.

com.epicentric.common.website.getItemsFromSiteRepository(String uidType, Site site)

Note that this method is scheduled to be removed in the 9.x release. Furthermore, the uidType value is not made available in the published API. This is not something you should use.

Can you provide more details on what you are trying to achieve? The following method will tell you if a particular user has login access for a site.

com.epicentric.common.website .EndUserUtils.isUserAuthorized(User user, Site site)

I recommend upgrading to the latest version of Portal (8.1) if possible.

Regards
Alex

Sridhar_Mamidi

Thanks Alex!

I am talking with clienta bout upgrade to 8.1.

My use case is: i have two sites, and user roles varies from one site other. and I am passing these groups from secondary page to portlet app. Here, i want to pass only site specific groups to portlet app.

I already have user goups(from API) and if I have site groups, by intersection logic, I can pass only site && user specific groups to portlet app.

thanks!

-Sridhar