how to access list of portal users

[Former Member]

hi,

i need to gain access to all sap portal users from webdynpro. does somebody know, where the user information is stored?

thanks a lot in advance,

matthias

ps: scrolling a bit further down, i've got 2 other unanswered questions :-]

[former_member182372 · Accepted solution]

Try this

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0f/807300c5754ed79107dcd9c2ae4ef4/content.htm

WBR, Maksim Rashchynski.

[Former Member]

Hi

If you are the J2EE instances of WAS and Portal are same then you can use the WDClientUser API to retrieve the user details

Code would be something like.

IWDClientUser user = WDClientUser.getCurrentUser();
wdComponentAPI.getMessageManager().reportSuccess("User is "+user.getSAPUser().getUniqueID());

Refer this thread for more information.

If the J2EE instances are different then you will have to write a Portal service that retrieves the name of the logged in Portal user and passes it as a return parameter. Now expose this portal service as a webservice and then consume the Webservice model in webdynpro.

Hope that was helpful

Regards

Ravi

[Former Member]

hi ravi,

in fact my portal and j2ee instances are the same, and I am using IWDClientUser to get the current user.

what i am aiming at is to get a list of all portal users. The link, Maksim gave (Portal Dev. Guide - searching for users...) seems to be promising...

I shall refer to this later on.

thanks anyway,

matthias

[shyam_ravindranathan]

Hi Matthias,

if the no of client users is what you want; you might want to try this

WDServerState.getNumberOfClientUsers()

hope it helps.

Regards,

shyam.

[Former Member]

interesting Object, but when i checked it, it produced something like an endless loop. Actually I need the No of Users and their LogonIDs.

the link provided by Maksim Rashchynski is very helpful.

thanks anyway,

Matthias

[Former Member]

I'm looking for the exact same thing, where you able to bring the UMFactory from a WebDynpro application? For sure, you had to import some classes or connect to a DC... Pleas help

Thank you.

[Former Member]

hi pablo,

sorry for the delay.

I am using the following imports:

import com.sap.security.api.IUser;

import com.sap.security.api.IUserFactory;

import com.sap.security.api.IUserSearchFilter;

import com.sap.security.api.UMException;

import com.sap.security.api.UMFactory;

to gain access to the list of all portalusers I use the following coding:

	//	  get Portal User
		IUserFactory ufact = UMFactory.getUserFactory();
		IUserSearchFilter isf;

		//	  ContextKnoten f�r Namen invalidieren und neu aufziehen		
		wdContext.nodeEPUser().invalidate();

		try
		{
			isf = ufact.getUserSearchFilter();
			//		 Provide the search attributes
			isf.setUniqueName("*", ISearchAttribute.LIKE_OPERATOR, false);
			//		 Start search
			ISearchResult sr = ufact.searchUsers(isf);
			String strtest = "";
			String strnamen = "";

			while (sr.hasNext())
			{
				//u = ufact.getUserByUniqueName(sr.next().toString());
				//IUser iu = ufact.sr.next();
				//strTest += "eintrag: "+u.getDisplayName()+", ";
				strtest = sr.next().toString();
				IUser user = UMFactory.getUserFactory().getUser(strtest);

// put user.getUniqueName().toUpperCase() in Context Node EPUsers


			}
		catch (UMException e)
		{
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
			//System.out.println(e.getMessage());

		}

Surely you get along with that,

regards Matthias

ps: the links provided above by others are indeed helpful.

esp this hint: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0f/807300c5754ed79107dcd9c2ae4ef4/content.htm

brought the solution for which I assigned 10 points

Message was edited by: matthias kasig

[Former Member]

Perfecto, is working for me now ... Thank you.

[natalia_kogan]

Hello Matthias,

Sorry annoyance but I hope you can help me.

I have problem with my UserSearch function in WenDinpro application and used your solution. But in my case without result.

try {

IUserFactory iuf = UMFactory.getUserFactory();

IUserSearchFilter usf = iuf.getUserSearchFilter();

// Input field for search parameter

String search = wdContext.currentContextElement().getUserDataSelect();

search = "" + search + "";

//Provide the search attributes

usf.setDisplayName(

search,

ISearchAttribute.LIKE_OPERATOR,

false);

//Start search

ISearchResult sr = iuf.searchUsers(usf);

String strtest = sr.toString().toUpperCase();

IUser user = UMFactory.getUserFactory().getUser(strtest);

// put to context

} catch (UMException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

I don't why I haven't access to user data (IUser user is blank). Can you help me?

best regards,

Natalia

[former_member182372]

Hello Natalia,

SearchResult is kind of Iterator, so it is not correct to call toString method to get user ID.

Try Matthias`s suggested code:

while (sr.hasNext())
{
	strtest = sr.next().toString();
	IUser user = UMFactory.getUserFactory().getUser(strtest);
	...
}

Best regards, Maksim Rashchynski.