Checking group membership in JavaScript

[dpatri]

Is there a way to check group membership of the current logged in user using JavaScript? Based on if a user is part of a group I want to display different information (and want to do it within a freemarker template and not directly in the JSP).

Thanks.

[dpatri]

Also, I am using alfresco version 1.4.2.. Do I have to upgrade to 2.0?

[kevinr]

Yes i'm afraid it's only available in 2.0:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JavaScript_API#People_API

[dpatri]

So if I upgraded to 2.0 and tried:

<#assign myGroup = people.getGroup("myGroup")>
<#if (myGroup.hasPermission("Read")) etc…
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Should something like the above work?

[kevinr]

The first line would work yes, and you can then extract the members (people) of the group and manipulate them. The second line you post does would not work - the hasPermission() check currently only checks for permissions of the current user.

Thanks,

Kevin

[dpatri]

I have upgraded to 2.0.1 enterprise edition, and when I try to use

<#assign taxGroup = people.getGroup("GROUP_grpOBITax")>‍

I get:
freemarker.core.InvalidReferenceException: Expression people is undefined on line 137, column 37
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.

[kevinr]

Sorry that should be:
var taxGroup = people.getGroup("GROUP_grpOBITax");

as the People object is part of the JavaScript API - not the freemarker templating API.

Thanks,

Kevin

[dpatri]

Thanks for that. I am a bit confused, perhaps I am not understanding everything. What I have done is customized a JSP, and within the JSP I have inserted some freemarker templates (using the <r:template….). This way I have it spaced out exactly as I need.

I have created these freemarker templates, because I want them to be located within the repository and be able to be edited, without having to change the JSP and rebuild the war file. (similar to how I created custom dashlets for the dashboard).

That being said, one of the templates shows different text (in fact, it uses the workflow command processor to approve/reject). Therefore I need to limit it based on group membership.

I had attempted to do it with freemarker, but in light of the people object only being available in the JavaScript API, how would you suggest I go about changing how I have developed this to work. Maybe I went about this the wrong way. Is there even a way to use the server-side JavaScript API within freemarker?

Thanks for your help.