Admin versus basic user

RE: Admin versus basic user

Ben Anderson — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:30:07 GMT

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.

RE: Admin versus basic user

Richard — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:16:47 GMT

That's a great thought! Cheers

RE: Admin versus basic user

Eduardo Fuentes — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 04:48:45 GMT

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))

RE: Admin versus basic user

Richard — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 20:45:03 GMT

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

RE: Admin versus basic user

Eduardo Fuentes — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:43:22 GMT

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