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Duarte Cunha Leao posted 07-30-2018 12:34

Hi David,

it's equally as easy with a RequireJS dashboard, imo.

In a component method (e.g. preExecution), you can do, to get the user:

this.dashboard.context.user

To get the roles, you get the roles property instead:

this.dashboard.context.roles

See Dashboard - Pentaho Documentation  for more information.

Cheers

David Martinez posted 07-31-2018 09:18

Hi Duarte,

It works fine from a component method as you said.

But, I was trying to get it from a javascript resource file, we will have a lot of dashboards and I don't want to have the same code in all of them.

I tried  to create a new Dashboard Object, expecting to have same session data in it without success.

 

require(["cdf/Dashboard"], function(Dashboard) {         var newDashboard = new Dashboard();         globalConf.roles = newDashboard.context.roles;     });

 

Another workarround, call a global function from a component method, I'm not happy at all with this because we still need to replicate call in all dashboards, find a component to hold in the call in every single dashboard and be carefull with execution order.

 

globalConf.requirejsGetRoles = function(dashboard){     globalConf.roles = dashboard.context.roles; }

 

¿alternatives?

Duarte Cunha Leao posted 07-31-2018 12:17

Hi David,

You can have a shared utilities file.

The utility methods which need access to a dashboard or a component need to receive it as an argument (or as the JS this context).

In principle, this works because everywhere else you might need and call those utility methods you will be in the context of a method of a component or of a dashboard itself.

Cheers