Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Yolanda Collier
We have a custom application and the customer would like to limit the user's ability to change the status, unless that person is a member of a particular organization. You must be a member of certain groups in order to change the status to Scheduled, Cancelled, or Denied. We have attempted to

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Longwing, Lj
Yolanda, First I would suggest you utilize the group id keyword instead of the groups keyword, only from the perspective that group names can 'overlap'...meaning you can have an 'Admin' and 'Contact Admin', and if you do groups like admin...both would matchbut not if you utilize the group id

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Rick Westbrock
: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Longwing, Lj Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 9:30 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership ** Yolanda, First I would suggest you utilize the group id keyword instead

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Curtis Gallant
Hi Yolanda, Using $GROUPS$ or $GROUPID$ to query for membership is always a bit messy and error prone. There is a run process purpose built for this type of activity, you just need to do a 2 step process instead of trying to do it all in your Run If qual. You set a field with this run process

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Longwing, Lj
(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Longwing, Lj *Sent:* Monday, April 22, 2013 9:30 AM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership ** ** ** Yolanda, First I would suggest you utilize the group id keyword instead

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Longwing, Lj
Curtis, I don't like using that particular run-process, because in situations like this you need to filters to do a single job, and a temp field for EACH group you want to check...the run-if that I outlined before will work reliably (as long as you use it properly) with a single piece of workflow,

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Collier, Yolanda S CTR MSC, N6
@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership ** Yolanda, First I would suggest you utilize the group id keyword instead of the groups keyword, only from the perspective that group names can 'overlap'...meaning you can have an 'Admin' and 'Contact Admin', and if you do groups

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Collier, Yolanda S CTR MSC, N6 Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:39 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership Thank you all for your input

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Longwing, Lj
) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Longwing, Lj Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 12:30 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership ** Yolanda, First I would suggest you utilize the group id keyword instead of the groups keyword, only from

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Rick Westbrock
(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Longwing, Lj Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 9:30 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership ** Yolanda, First I would suggest you utilize the group id keyword instead of the groups keyword, only from

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Collier, Yolanda S CTR MSC, N6
@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership ** Rick, Yes, $GROUPS$ is messy, which is why they added the $GROUPIDS$ keyword, and to avoid the exact issue you are discussing, the keyword for group ids always has a semicolon at the beginning and end of the string, so you don't

Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership

2013-04-22 Thread Longwing, Lj
** ** ** ** ___ Rick Westbrock QMX Support Services ** ** *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Longwing, Lj *Sent:* Monday, April 22, 2013 10:12 AM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Allowing Status Change By Group Membership