Introduction

The userview Permission Menu allows you to configure category permissions for user-defined groups at run-time. This feature does away with the need to go into the userview builder to manually set the permission for every menu category.


Get Started

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

Steps

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  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.

  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

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

  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).

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 4


Manage Permission Properties

Configure Manage Permission Menu


NameDescription
Custom ID

Item link slug. Optional field.

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

Figure 1

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 5.

Permission LabelPermission list name. See Figure 3.
Category

Optional Group label. Category to group similar permission labels under.

Enable Refined Controls?

Allows administrators to implement intricate user permission configurations per group.

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

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.

Figure 4: Enabled Refined Controls


Advance

Name

Description

Custom HeaderCustom Header in HTML to show.
Custom FooterCustom Footer in HTML to show.

Performance & Offline

Cache Settings

Name

Description412px


Scope

Caching options are:

  • 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.

PWA Offline Settings

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

Name

Description


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


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



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

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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