Adding Commands to Smart UI - Enable method on the lines of _SubClassIsEnabled

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a better way to check if a command/action can be shown to a user. I am aware of command_key variable and enabled method where we could add the checks to see if the command can be enabled or disabled. Is there any way to call _SubClassIsEnabled of a particular WedNodeCommand to decide whether the smartUI command for the same could be shown or not.

I am currently able to check if other signatures(actions registered with CSUI extension) are enabled and also do checks based on perms. But to check usage privileges, I might have to explore further . This is where I stopped to see if there is an example or documentation on this aspect.

Regards,
Siva Prasad

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Siva Prasad Salipalli

It is achievable using a Rest call to api/v1/nodes/{id}/actions. Need not reinvent the wheel.

Ferdinand Prantl

I am afraid, that there is no SDK example, how to add a custom permitted action to support a custom command. If you want to figure out, how they work, you can have a look at orphans of CSNODE::ObjectsWithPrototypes::Actions::NodeActions. Some of them should reuse the logic in WebNodeActions too.

Once there is a command registered in Smart UI, its permitted action (command_key) will be added to the /nodes/actions call to check the permission.

Siva Prasad Salipalli

How do we register a custom command with Smart UI, so that I could use the command_key parameter to do all the server side checks to see if a user is allowed to see a command or not. There is little documentation under CSNODES;ObjectsWithPrototypes:NodeActions , but I cannot get this working. Is there anythingto be done to register in REST API Subsytems(Menu2NodeAction). I see that IsSelectable is called from RESTAPI . But nothing is documented.

HFCDev

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but if I read this right, you still need to add the webnode command in Oscript - it seems that Smart UI won't display commands that aren't available in the classic view, or am I missing something?

-Hugh

Siva Prasad Salipalli

@Hugh,

The subnode commands in Classic view are differnet from what we see in Smart view. In smart view these are called Commands and can be linked to CSNODE actions which can be executed when a command is clicked on the smart UI. Webnode CMD in our OScript world is the new command in Smart UI and WebNode Action is the CSNODE action. Thats how I see in terms of correlating both the worlds.

Btw, what I wanted to try is to show classic view (webnode command) in smart view as a new Command by reusing the same IsSubclassenabled of the webnode command .I have achieved it by going through CSNODE action and orphaning some RESTAPI objects , so that the server does the validation whether a command key is available or not. Someone could argue that we could have used enabled funtion in the command definition at the client side, but I had whole lot of server side checks to be performed.

I wish OT had documented this or added suffecient comments in RESTAPI on how they have done.

Regards,

Siva Prasad

olylak_ecodocx

Hello,

I need to create a custom command for Samrt UI that should do a rest call to external system.
I was able to create a client-side extension for CSUI to show that command on a documents.

Now I need to do the following:
1. The command should be shown if a document has specific category and attribute assigned (If I'm not wrong the correct way here would be a server-side validation).
2. When the command is clicked in Smart-UI a server-side code should do a web service call.

The information how to do that is a little bit confusing.

Can anyone provide some simple step-by-step guide on how to create Oscript Smart UI custom command and use command_key for validation?
What objects should be orphaned and what features to set/override in order to implement it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,
Oleh.

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