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Introduction

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The userview 

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The Permission Menu allows you to configure category permissions for user-defined groups in at run-time.

This feature alleviates eliminates the need for app designers to go into the userview builder to manually adjust set the permission for every menu category.

 

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Figure 1: Permission Menu in Userview

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Figure 2: Configuring permission - Add User - Permission Menu in Userview

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Figure 3: Permission Menu Properties

Get Started

The easiest way to see how the Manage Permission menu works is to download the attached demo app, import, publish and run the app in your Joget platform:

Steps:


  1. Manage permission menu basically allows you to configure the userview menu category permissions from the run time screens. In this example (Figure 1), there are four menu categories you can assign the view permission.

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Figure 1

2. The Configure button (Figure 2) will present you with the following permission options:

  • Is Admin
  • Is Anonymous
  • Bean Shell Script
  • Department
  • Group
  • Logged In User
  • Organization
  • Is Sub Level Userview
  • User

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Figure 2

3. In Userview Builder, the Manage Permission menu property is shown in Figure 3 (More details are provided below). 

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Figure 3

4. Each menu category permission property (Figure 4) is tagged as "Permission Type = Controlled By Manage Permission Menu" and given a "Permission Key" name. You then map the respective "Permission Key" names into the "Manage Permission > Permissions" grid (Figure 3).

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Figure 4

Manage Permission Properties

Configure Manage Permission Menu

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Figure 5

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Custom ID

Item link slug. Optional field

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(Figure 5)

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titleUnique field

Value defined here must be unique to the rest of the Userview Menus as the first matching name will be called upon.

LabelMenu label. Mandatory field.
Page TitlePage title on Permission Menu page. You can use HTML tags, for example <b></b> to bold the title.
Permissions
Permission Key

Id to match against userview categories

.See Figure 3 & 7 for reference

(Figure 4).

Permission LabelPermission list name
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Category

Optional Group label. Category to group similar permission labels under

.See Figure 1 & 3 for reference

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Optional Field.

Enable Refined Controls (Requires Admin User Role)?

Allows administrators to implement intricate user permission configurations per group.

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titleUsing LDAP / External Directory Manager?

If you are using external directory manager such as the LDAP Directory Manager, you must enable this option to use this Manage Permission menu.

Warning
titleImportant Note

Once this feature is enabled, only users with administrative access can manage the permission.

As opposed to Figure 2, when configuring permission, you will be brought to the following screen for finer permission control.

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Advanced

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Figure 6 

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Description

Custom HeaderCustom Header in HTML to show (Figure 6).

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Figure 4: Enabled Refined Controls
 
Custom FooterCustom Footer in HTML to show.

Performance & Offline

Cache Settings

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Figure 7

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Scope

Caching options are (Figure 7):

  • None: No caching.
  • Application: Cache content by application where all users will see the same content.
  • User: Cache by username.
Duration (s)Duration in seconds to cache content, defaults to 20 seconds if applicable.
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Read more at Performance Improvement with Userview Caching.

PWA Offline Settings

Note: PWA Offline support is dependent on the theme used.

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Description

Enable cache for offline supportCheck this to enable caching for offline support, usually set for use on mobile browsers.

Read Progressive Web Application (PWA) for more information.


4. After setting up the Permission Menu, remember to configure all the respective userview categories.

Note

 Note that, multiple categories can use the same permission key. Setting up as such will grant multiple categories to a permission group.

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titleHow to use this permission plugin in a userview category

In the userview category that you wish to manage its permission via this plugin, edit the category's permission as shown in figure 5.

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Figure 5: Adding permission to an userview category

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Figure 6: Change "Permission Type" to grant permission to Permission Menu

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Figure 7: Assigning "Permission Key" to Category to match against in Permission Menu

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Download Demo App

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