GetAbstractPermission in business logic

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In a UI plugin, I can

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accessLevel = salesOrderForm.GetAbstractPermission("sales order - email invoices")

How would I achieve similar, but in business logic?

e.g. I'd like to (but can't):

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accessLevel = salesOrder.GetAbstractPermission("sales order - email invoices")

[Mike.Sheen]

e.g. I'd like to (but can't):

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accessLevel = salesOrder.GetAbstractPermission("sales order - email invoices")

Hi Ryan,

The GetAbstractPermission of the form is simply a convenience wrapper around Manager.Staff.GetAbstractPermission - so you want:

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accessLevel = salesOrder.Manager.Staff.GetAbstractPermission("sales order - email invoices")

Mike

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That one has a className parameter as well as an AbstractPermissionName parameter?

(from Object Browser):
Public Function GetAbstractPermission(ClassName As String, AbstractPermissionName As String) As JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaApplication.Security.UserGroup.AccessLevels
Member of JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaApplication.JiwaStaff.clsStaff

[Mike.Sheen]

That one has a className parameter as well as an AbstractPermissionName parameter?

(from Object Browser):
Public Function GetAbstractPermission(ClassName As String, AbstractPermissionName As String) As JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaApplication.Security.UserGroup.AccessLevels
Member of JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaApplication.JiwaStaff.clsStaff

Ahh - yes I forgot about that.

The ClassName is the class type for the FORM associated with the business logic. You'll find those in the SY_Forms table - but for sales orders it's either "JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaSalesUI.SalesOrder.SalesOrderEntryForm" or "JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaSalesUI.SalesOrder.CreditNoteForm" (different permissions for credit notes).

Mike

EDIT: For completeness, the code is:

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accessLevel = salesOrder.Manager.Staff.GetAbstractPermission("JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaSalesUI.SalesOrder.SalesOrderEntryForm", "sales order - email invoices")

EDIT #2:
And you can obtain the ClassName from the business logic itself, without having to inspect the SY_Forms table - use the ClientClassName property of the business logic:

So a more technically correct way:

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accessLevel = salesOrder.Manager.Staff.GetAbstractPermission(salesOrder.ClientClassName, "sales order - email invoices")

[pricerc]

So a more technically correct way:

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accessLevel = salesOrder.Manager.Staff.GetAbstractPermission(salesOrder.ClientClassName, "sales order - email invoices")

I'm glad I spent so much time responding to your anti-VB propaganda... (otherwise I would have used your less elegant version already)

I was going to suggest that maybe helper functions on the business objects would be something worth adding. This is pretty good though; makes a nice one-line extension method in my SalesOrder library :

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<Extension()>
        Public Function GetAbstractPermission(salesOrder As SalesOrder, AbstractPermissionName As String) As AccessLevels
            Return salesOrder.Manager.Staff.GetAbstractPermission(salesOrder.ClientClassName, AbstractPermissionName)
        End Function