How to get and use favourites and other folder from another user?

Hi,

I am developing an application that needs to perform some tasks that are not generally allowed to regular users, therefore, we use a special account with special privileges.

However, when showing dialogs, we would like the user to see his favourites, engagements, etc.

How can I get an specific user's favourites and other special folders and add them to the current user (with special privileges) while the session last? so if a dialog is open the user will see his own folders.

Thanks in advance.

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izogi

I am developing an application that needs to perform some tasks that are not generally allowed to regular users, therefore, we use a special account with special privileges.

However, when showing dialogs, we would like the user to see his favourites, engagements, etc.

I'm not writing as an expert, but have you considered trying to connect as two users simultaneously?

ie. Have your application connect as the special account for the special actions you require, and then create a separate session which connects as the user who runs the application to get the favourites.

Perhaps you'd need to do some juggling behind the scenes if you need to take items from the user's favourites and operate on those items in a different session with different privileges.

Mike.

rjb09

I'm not writing as an expert, but have you considered trying to connect as two users simultaneously?

ie. Have your application connect as the special account for the special actions you require, and then create a separate session which connects as the user who runs the application to get the favourites.

Perhaps you'd need to do some juggling behind the scenes if you need to take items from the user's favourites and operate on those items in a different session with different privileges.

Mike.

I have done that and it works well. However, it requires to have two separate instances of the IManDMS object as it does not allow to add to sessions pointing to the same server. I thought this solution would be more taxing in terms of resources, so I am basically login in as the current user and only creating the special session when needed, and then cleaning up, but I was wondering if there was a better approach.

guido1

As far as I know, creating a new ManDMS instance isn't what you should be worrying about: it's the creation of a logged-in session that contacts the database and is resource-hungry.

I think your original approach is fine

rjb09

yes, I know that the Session is the one that holds resources, so I only create the additional session when I need it and clean it up right away.