Hi I have a scenario in which user can select a user from a particula

komalc3

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over 9 years ago

Hi

I have a scenario in which user can select a user from a particular user group. I have used the function isusermemberofgroup() in the validations of pickerFieldUsers() which works as per desire when I am logged in as Admin.
My code is:
a!pickerFieldUsers(
label: "Select User : ",
labelPosition: "ADJACENT",
maxSelections:1,
value:ri!user,
saveInto:ri!user,
validations:if(isnull(ri!user),{},{if(isusermemberofgroup(ri!user,cons!USER_GROUP)," ","Please select the correct user")})
)
But when I log in as a basic user I get an error as:

Error evaluating function 'isusermemberofgroup' : PrivilegeException[null=>null]: Insufficient permission

Can anyone please suggest as to how to handle this scenario.

Thanks in advance!!

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0 Tim
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over 9 years ago

You should use the groupFilter attribute for this type of requirement.
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0 komalc3
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over 9 years ago

Hi Tim
Thanx for replying!!
The groupfilter attribute also thros the same error, tested it as well.
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0 Rahul Gundu over 9 years ago

Basic users are restricted because of group security and group privacy policy. Make the group security as public and group privacy policy as low.
The tutorial will help you.
forum.appian.com/.../Configuring_Security_for_Groups.html
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0 komalc3
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over 9 years ago

Thanx Rahul!!
It is working as per desire.
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0 Chris over 9 years ago

In addition, if you run into this again and can't modify group security - for those cases I've created a function to check based on group name which utilizes the getgroupsformemberuser() function, to avoid security restrictions.

contains(
apply(
fn!tostring,
apply(
fn!getgroupnames,
getgroupsformemberuser(
ri!userIn
)
)
),
ri!groupName
)
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0 jayashrib223 over 7 years ago in reply to Chris

We are using function "getgroupsformemberuser" like this:apply(fn!getgroupsformemberuser,<lastUpdatedUserId>).

This works fine in all environment except the one where we get error as:- com.appiancorp.suiteapi.common.exceptions.AppianException: Incorrect privileges to get groups for user. [User Context: We get error when <lastUpdatedUserId> is not part of logged in user's group.

We checked that group security setting are same as in other environments - group security as public and group privacy policy as low.

Please suggest
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0 Jamal Case
Certified Lead Developer
over 7 years ago

Another way you can implement this is by using the groupFilter parameter to filter to only show users in that group and remove the validation since you won't be able to choose a user that's not in that group. This is a code snippet you can use:

a!pickerFieldUsers(
label: "Select User : ",
labelPosition: "ADJACENT",
maxSelections:1,
value:ri!user,
saveInto:ri!user,
groupFilter:cons!USER_GROUP
)
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0 venkateshs329 over 7 years ago in reply to jayashrib223

AFAIK Call getgroupsformemberuser() function In process model Script TASK AND Assignment should be whoever designed the process , These particular node will execute under designer context
and we can able to call getgroupsformemberuser() function and pass Interface rule.
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