topic hiding controls in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hiding-controls/m-p/176831#M129961 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>does anybody know, am I right here:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;%<BR />&lt;%!<BR />&nbsp; /** this function converts an array of cookies into a hashtable */<BR />&nbsp; Hashtable cookieTable(Cookie[] cookies) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hashtable cookieTable = new Hashtable();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (cookies != null) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for (int i=0; i &lt; cookies.length; i++)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cookieTable.put(cookies[i].getName(), cookies[i].getValue());<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return cookieTable;<BR />&nbsp; }<BR />%&gt;<BR />&lt;%!<BR />&nbsp; String isAdmin(HttpServletRequest request)<BR />{<BR />&nbsp; String name = new String();<BR />&nbsp; Boolean isAdmin = new Boolean(false);<BR />&nbsp; Hashtable cookies = cookieTable(request.getCookies());<BR /><BR />&nbsp; if (cookies.containsKey("alfUser")) <BR />&nbsp; {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; name = (String)cookies.get("alfUser");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (name.indexOf("@")==-1)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;isAdmin = true;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR />&nbsp; }<BR />&nbsp; return isAdmin;<BR />}<BR />%&gt;<BR />[…]<BR />&lt;a:booleanEvaluator value="&lt;%isAdmin(request).toString()%&gt;" id="evaluator"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;h:outputText value="sometext" /&gt; <BR />&lt;/a:booleanEvaluator&gt;<BR />[…]<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>this output text is not rendered as booleanEvaluator gets incorrect value! Java code itself is tested and is correct, but I'm suspicious about request parameter- maybe there are multiple requests and when booleanEvaluator is rendered, that request doesn't have specific cookie I'm looking for?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>if I just put&nbsp; </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;%=isAdmin(request).toString%&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> elsewhere, it gets correct value and if I'm logged in as admin, it shows correct boolean value!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:53:25 GMT timurso 2008-12-09T10:53:25Z hiding controls https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hiding-controls/m-p/176831#M129961 Hi!does anybody know, am I right here:&lt;%&lt;%!&nbsp; /** this function converts an array of cookies into a hashtable */&nbsp; Hashtable cookieTable(Cookie[] cookies) {&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hashtable cookieTable = new Hashtable();&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (cookies != null) {&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for (int i=0; i &lt; cookies.length; i++)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cookieTable.put Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:53:25 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hiding-controls/m-p/176831#M129961 timurso 2008-12-09T10:53:25Z Re: hiding controls https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hiding-controls/m-p/176832#M129962 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I presume it's because misunderstanding of "client side" and "server side" parts, but how could I solve it?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:28:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/hiding-controls/m-p/176832#M129962 timurso 2008-12-09T11:28:23Z