Best Practices for making Admin request handlers available to business admins

HFCDev

Hi,

Is there a guide or best practices for setting up admin sections and their usage privileges? I managed to reverse engineer my way to a functioning module where some of the request handlers will show up on the admin page that Business Administrators see. I have an orphan of the BusinessPrivilege object in WebAdmin which creates a usage privilege in the usage privileges page.

A couple of questions:

* Is there any sort of registry to register sectionID's? The business privilege uses a 2 item integer list as its key. FOr now, I made the first digit 15 (like the other core admin privileges, and I made the second one 32767 (making it less likely to get clobbered by OT, but quite likely to get clobbered by another like-minded Tech partner);

* My list of integers in the fRegistry in WebAdmin::BusinessPrivilege consists of sectionIDs in my relevant Admin request handlers, which correspond to my Admin Index sections' businessID value. I set all of mine to start at 9000 to also avoid collision with OT, but is there a registry I should be using?

* The Business Privilege I created shows up in the usage privileges page initially as unrestricted. Is there a way to default it to restricted with the group prepopulated with the Business Administrators group?

Thanks in advance

-Hugh

Ian_Whitfield

I don't think there is a public registry for this although happy to be corrected if anyone knows of one. My understanding is that integrators should use sectionIDs of above 10'000 to avoid conflicts with OT registered handlers.

To pre-populate with a group you need to programmatically add the Business Admins group to the Usage Priv group. If you have a system that is 20.2 or later you can see an example of this being done in $Perspectives.DBUpgradePkg.AddDefaultPrivilegeGroups. This needs to be called from InitModule and a DBUpgrade step.