I’m trying to replicate a customization that we have in Classic UI, in the Kinetic UI. In Classic, on Part Maintenance, I have the background color of each text box color-coded to which department is responsible for maintaining that value, e.g. green = Eng, purple = Sales, pink = Purchasing, etc.
I know we have limited color/style options in Kinetic UI, so instead of color-coding all the text boxes I’d like to just highlight the fields that can be edited by the current user based on the current User’s security group OR based on field security.
I’ve added field security to the fields already, but can’t find a way to add a row rule in App Studio that says “if the user has full access to the field, highlight it” or “if the user is part of security group X, highlight field Y”.
For example, if the user is from Eng security group, highlight Part, Description, UOM Class, etc. (the fields they would have full access to).
Perhaps you could run a BAQ or function when the page loads to get the fields that can be edited by the current user.
Set those fields in the TransView.
Add a data rule condition based on the TransView field.
Forgive the “Lord of the Rings” references in the below post… but if you add a UserFile dataview, you can gain access to the current user’s GroupList and compare that against Constant.CurrentUserID in a row rule.
Ok, I’ve added the UserFile dataview, tied it to Constant.CurrentUserID, and according to the developer tools it looks like it’s loading data…but the row rule isn’t working. What am I missing here?
All of those settings, with the exception of the Constant.CurrentUserID value, should have been set up for you if you used the DataView wizard to create the GetByID event.
BUT… one last potential gotcha… If, perhaps you were poking around and exploring, and you happened to click on the “Dataset” option in the Response Parameters, this will probably break your event!!!
