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Joey Sandoval
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Is it possible to assign the username parameter directly, using javascript, instead of a procedure?

For example, we want to grab the IBI user during the on initial update phase. Is it possible to get something like this working?

  
edit1.value=&IBIMR_user;


Thank you,

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Tom Flynn
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var edit.value = !IBI.AMP.IBIMR_user;;


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Francis Mariani
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var edit.value = '!IBI.AMP.IBIMR_user;';
and only if the html page was launched from a -HTMLFORM in a fex. If you run the html page by itself, !IBI.AMP is not available.


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Waz
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Yes, as Francis says, the will only work if WebFOCUS is called.

It also relies on validation against MRE.

What do you mean by update phase ?


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Joey Sandoval
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We want to dynamically change the design of the HTML, based on the user that is logged into MRE, before the page loads - using the on initial update function.



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John_Edwards
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Having the userid embedded in the web page that is sent to the browser makes it available to people with less than honorable intentions. They could change their username to that of another user. I don't know if that's a concern for you, but it's generally bad form to have an unencryped username embedded in the html file.

If it's not used for anything particularly interesting ("Welcome Joey_Sandoval!") then it doesn't really matter. but at that point you'd just be embedding it in the html, not in a Javascript function that is presumably using it for something.

Once the user has logged in to MRE the IBIMR_user variable is always present on subsequent calls to the server. You can adjust the html returned to the end-user each time on the server prior to delivery, and then leave the ID out of the page that is returned.

J.



 
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Joey Sandoval
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J,
I do see your point in that regards. For this project, we essentially just want to display a small administritave groupbox for a very small # of users (dept managers) and hide these controls for all other users of this dashboard.

Rather than create 2 dashboards (2 domains) , we thought we could implement some simple javascript to hide and display controls before the page loads based on user id.



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John_Edwards
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I believe that, if someone has JavaScript turned off, they may get an unintended result. That's pretty common these days with all the malicious stuff going around the Internet.

You may do better to use the IBIMR_user value to simply skip that part of the source code in the unit that is presented to them. If you put the entire html file you want to present inside an HTMLFORM BEGIN/HTMLFORM END block in a Focexec (that is, code it as a focexec instead of an html file in WF) you can use the IBIMR_user variable to simply step past the group box. An IF statement would do the trick.

With this method the source code is adjusted on the server prior to being delivered to the client's browser, so you have guaranteed control of what they get and what they can do with it.

You're essentially using the focexec as a jsp where you can adjust the source code returned based upon the user's information. This will give you a guaranteed result regardless of the browser's js configuration.

J.



 
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