Getting Portal Role of the Logged in User.

[Former Member]

Hi Experts ,

I have a scenario similar to the one in following weblog:

/people/preksha.malhotra/blog/2006/12/12/accessing-a-web-dynpro-application-through-portal-using-portal-user-id

I need to know, if I can get the Portal "Role" of the user who has

looged in on the portal and then pass it as the application parameter

to the Web Dynpro application.

Also, if there is any other way to get the Portal Role of the user

in Web Dynpro, if EP and Web Dynpro are on different servers.

For the same server situation i have tried the following code which works:

Iterator rit = null;

IWDClientUser clientUser = WDClientUser.getCurrentUser();

IUser user = clientUser.getSAPUser();

rit = user.getRoles(true);

IRoleFactory rfact = UMFactory.getRoleFactory();

while (rit.hasNext()) {

String roleName = (String) rit.next();

IRole role = rfact.getRole(roleName);

wdContext.currentContextElement().setRole(role);

}

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanx in Advance

Alka.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

role = rfact.getRole(roleName);

wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess("Role:" + roleName

+ "Display Name:" + role.getDisplayName()

+ "ID: " + role.getUniqueID()

+ "Uniquename: " + role.getUniqueName()

+ "Description: " + role.getDescription());

<b>role.getDisplayName()</b> will gives you the Role Name.

Regards,

Jhansi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Jhansi,

I had tried the getDisplayName() method. The others were useful too. Thanx for the reply.

But can you guide me with the separate server scenario for getting role names.

Regards,

Alka

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Alka,

sitting in front of the same problem here as you are facing. I have WD and portal on seperate servers and want to look for specific roles a user has (or not).

Did you find a solution? Or do you know if it is possible at all? I could imagine that the UMFactory is just looking at the server the WD is deployed to and not the portal server where it is displayed. The user is passed via SSO but the roles most probably not... (i guess?).

You could make my day if you have a solution though... ;).

Thanks,

Christian

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Christian,

I have yet not found the solution for getting the Portal Roles of the looged in user.

Going through the various forums, and the solutions proposed, I finally deployed

my Web Dynpro application on the Portal server and made it work.

Please notify me in case you find a solution for this.

Regards,

Alka.

[abhijeet_mukkawar]

hi,

follow the link, it will be of help to you

regards,

abhijeet

[Former Member]

Hi Abhijeet,

You have misunderstood the problem. I don't require all the roles that are defined

on the Protal Server.

I need the Role of the User who has logged in on the Portal server.

Also the solution that You are trying to suggest will work only on same server scenario.

Anyways thanx for a prompt reply.

Alka.