Change the identity when adding a user

RE: Change the identity when adding a user

Tom Hofste — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 08:50:39 GMT

Thank you for the code improvement.

RE: Change the identity when adding a user

Zahar Chernov — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 05:07:19 GMT

Happy to hear that my solution helped you. You can simplify you code: Instead (3 lines of code):

Item userItem = this.newItem("User","get"); userItem.setProperty("id",userId); userItem = userItem.apply();

You can use (one line of code):

Item userItem = this.getInnovator().getItemById("User", userId);

Instead creating if statement (5 lines of code), you can write something like (one line) :

updateIdnt.setProperty("name", userItem.getProperty("{prop1}", "") + ( (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userItem.getProperty("{prop2}"))) ? " " + userItem.getProperty("{prop2}") + " " : "") + userItem.getProperty("{prop3}",""));

If you prefer to keep the if statement, you need to update it as following:

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(userItem.getProperty("{prop2}"))

RE: Change the identity when adding a user

Tom Hofste — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:37:43 GMT

Hello Zahar, Thank you for your suggestion. I wasn't able to get the user information on the id, so I did it the long way and that seems to work. I also needed to extend the method with a if statement so when the {prop2} is empty.


Innovator inn = this.getInnovator();

Item identItm =this.getPropertyItem("related_id");
string userId = this.getProperty("source_id");

Item userItem = this.newItem("User","get");
userItem.setProperty("id",userId);
userItem = userItem.apply();

Item updateIdnt = this.getInnovator().newItem("Identity", "merge");
updateIdnt.setID(identItm.getID());
if (userItem.getProperty("{prop2}","") == null) 
{
    updateIdnt.setProperty("name", userItem.getProperty("{prop1}", "") + " " + userItem.getProperty("{prop3}",""));   
} else
{
    updateIdnt.setProperty("name", userItem.getProperty("{prop1}", "") + " " + userItem.getProperty("{prop2}","") + " " + userItem.getProperty("{prop3}",""));
}
updateIdnt.apply();

return inn.newResult("");

RE: Change the identity when adding a user

Zahar Chernov — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:28:16 GMT

Hello Tom, If I understand it right, you want to be able to set Identity name to different value than "First Name & Last Name"? If you, you can create serverMethod onAfterAdd of the ItemType Alias and then get User item from source_id property and the Identity from related_id property. Then update name property of Identity item based on properties from User item. Something like this:

Item userItm = this.getPropertyItem("source_id"); Item identItm =this.getPropertyItem("related_id"); Item updateIdnt = this.getInnovator().newItem(identItm.getType(), "merge"); updateIdnt.setID(identItm.getID()); updateIdnt.setProperty("name", userItm.getProperty("{prop1}", "") + " " + userItm.getProperty("{prop2}") + " " + userItm.getProperty("{prop3}")); updateIdnt.apply();