Help understanding Freemarker permissions
Hi!
I was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction as I'm a little confused when it comes to Freemarker.
In my community we have a value that a user specifies during registration. Depending on permissions, this value will be displayed next to their name whenever they post. Only thing is, I can't sort out how this 'permission' is allowed?
Pasted below is a snip from the custom componet for this feature, can someone help me better understand how the value in bold gets determined? In other words, how can I ensure a role has the allowed permission? I cant seem to figure out just how I can modify who is allowed to do this, and who isnt. Thanks!
<#assign carrier_allowed = rest("/messages/id/${env.context.message.uniqueId?c}/author/profiles/name/carrier/allowed").value />
<#if carrier_allowed == "true">
<#assign carrier = rest("/messages/id/${env.context.message.uniqueId?c}/author/profiles/name/carrier").value />
Hey tyw , The rest call breaks down like this:
/messages/id/${env.context.message.uniqueId?c}/author/profiles/name/carrier/allowed").value
/messages <= look at messages
/id <= look at a specific message by it's ID
/${env.context.message.uniqueId?c} <= look at the message we are currently in (so this component forms part of a post or this will error)
/author <= Now look at the author of the specific post
/profiles <= retrieve details from their profile
/name <= retrieve a specific field by it's name
/carrier/allowed").value <= And here we're retrieving a specific group of fields. "Carrier" and an "Allowed" value under it.
I'd assume this is a list of mobile carriers a user can assign themselves to?
The "allowed" option changes the rest call from a value to a boolean, I think it refers to whether a user can access a field or not.
For one of our random users it returns "true" for a field we have, and "false" for fields we don't have. As an admin you'll see "true" for all fields.
You can retrieve the actual value like this:
http://CommunityUrl/CommunityName/restapi/vc/users/id/UserID/profiles/name/name_first
http://CommunityUrl/CommunityName/restapi/vc/users/id/UserID/profiles/name/carrier
We have a custom field to store the users birthday (as a string in EPOCH) format, but we never included the ability to view, customise or edit it in our original spec... Hopefully you've got more than we got :)
That cover what you're looking for?
REST docs on the profile call over here: http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-API/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=User.profiles#User.profiles
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