Admin versus basic user

Seems to be a duplicate of forum.appian.com/.../e-233539

Sort of, but they're really two different issues. Ultimately, yes I do need a tool to identify System Administrators (support has provided that for me!) But I was also curious about why only certain fields in a grid/feed layout were searchable and it turns out that only items that are in the record are searchable, so derived values (e.g. calls to the 'user' function) won't be evaluated against any search criteria the user enters.

At any rate both are solved. Here's what support provided scriptwise

SystemAdmins.txt

You can do that or:

1. Create a group
2. Open the group and click - Rules
3. Create a rule to "add all users whose user type equals "Administrator"
4. This will add all users automatically that are of this type
5. Store this group in a constant
6. Simply use

getdistinctusers(topeople(cons!ADMIN_GROUP_FROM_STEP_1))

That's a great thought! Cheers

To determine the system admins, you can run the following expression:

=load(
local!designerUsers: getdistinctusers(getgroupbyname("Designers")),
local!adminUsers: apply(fn!isusersystemadministrator,local!designerUsers),
index(local!designerUsers,where(local!adminUsers),{})
)

The Designers group contains all system admins by rule, but non-admin users can be added to the group so the second step is needed as a safeguard.