Answers to: Manage users of several applications by a single admin user

Comment by Stefan on Reto Weiss's answer

Stefan — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:52:51 -0500

Thx, your answer is very helpful Rgds, Stefan

Answer by Reto Weiss

Reto Weiss — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:46:24 -0500

It is possible but not with a public API.

However, a better solutions may be to have only one application where you deploy multiple different projects (a.k. web application) into. Use roles so that only users that are allowed to work on a web application can do so.

If this is not possible, you can try the following:

To access all applications running on a server you can use the following non public API (it may or will change in future without any notice ...):

import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;

import ch.ivyteam.ivy.application.ApplicationConfigurationManagerNavigationUtil;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.application.IApplication;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.application.IApplicationConfigurationManager;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.environment.Ivy;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.security.SecurityManagerFactory;


public class AccessToAllApplications 
{
    public List<IApplication> getAllApplications() throws Exception
    {
        return SecurityManagerFactory.getSecurityManager().executeAsSystem(new Callable<List<IApplication>>(){

            @Override
            public List<IApplication> call() throws Exception 
            {
                return getAllApplicationsAsSystem();
            }});
    }

    protected List<IApplication> getAllApplicationsAsSystem() 
    {
        IApplicationConfigurationManager appConfigManager = ApplicationConfigurationManagerNavigationUtil.getApplicationConfigurationManager(Ivy.request().getApplication());
        return appConfigManager.getApplications();
    }
}

The executeAsSystem method is used to turn off security. If you use it then security has to be ensured by the process developer.

Comment by Stefan on Stefan's question

Stefan — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:28:23 -0500

Sorry: This belongs to xpert.ivy 5.x.

With the currently available API, it seems not possible to manage an absence of a person/user applicationwide (or outside a currently session i'm logged in) (the user exists normally only once in a company, so an absence should be valid for all applications this user is created in). And for an admin, it would be nice if there is a possibility to manage also substitutions for users in different applications. I can manage that by accessing the ivy database directly, but I didn't found any way to do that over the API.

Comment by Reto Weiss on Stefan's question

Reto Weiss — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:29:55 -0500

Does this question belong to Xpert.ivy 3.9 or 4/5.x?