I have been playing with D2W and I may have boxed myself into a corner. A User is of a type. a User can be a Vendor or a Client or a Worker. So I thought that I would create an attribute 'userType' in User. I wanted to have a Vendor tab and a Client tab and I have it mostly working.
when I create a ListVendorPage: public WOComponent listVendorAction() { EOEditingContext ec = ERXEC.newEditingContext(); ListPageInterface lpi = (ListPageInterface) D2W.factory().listPageForEntityNamed("AppUser", session()); EODatabaseDataSource ds = new EODatabaseDataSource(ec, "AppUser"); ERXFetchSpecification<AppUser> fs = new ERXFetchSpecification<AppUser>(AppUser.ENTITY_NAME, AppUser.IS_ACTIVE.eq(true).and(AppUser.USER_TYPE.eq("Vendor")), null); ds.setFetchSpecification(fs); lpi.setDataSource(ds); ((D2WComponent) lpi).d2wContext().takeValueForKey("ListVendor", "navigationState"); ((D2WComponent) lpi).d2wContext().takeValueForKey("Vendor", "userTypeKey"); return (D2WPage) lpi; } I am also adding that userTypeKey so I can target rules like this: 100 : (pageConfiguration = 'ListAppUser' and userTypeKey = 'Vendor') => displayNameForPageConfiguration = "Vendor List" [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment] Maybe there is a better way? If I select to edit a Vendor, I wanted rules: 100 : (pageConfiguration = 'EditAppUser' and userTypeKey = 'Vendor') => navigationState = "ListVendor" [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment] 100 : (pageConfiguration = 'EditAppUser' and userTypeKey = 'admins') => navigationState = "ListAdmins" [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment] then I thought that what I should be using is inheritance. Vendor inherits from User, Administrators inherit from User. In the past, I would have created a User with boolean attributes for Vendor, Client, Employee, Admin. After all a user can be both an employee and a vendor. How are youse guys doing this? Ted
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