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Access rights and showing/hiding buttons accordingly in XPages (Domino)

I want to show a button when the current user has Author rights or if the current user is a member of a group, that has those rights.

Now I found this approach.

This is how I tried to implement it, inside the rendered property of my button:

var cxt = com.ibm.domino.xsp.module.nsf.NotesContext.getCurrent();
var isEditable = cxt.isDocEditable(currentDocument.getDocument());
return isEditable;

In my case isEditable is always true.

Can someone tell me if and what I am doing wrong, please?

Thank you in advance.

EDIT

It seems I was foolish enough to skip over the Author access and tested with Manager, Editor, Reader only.

Big thanks to @Paul Stephen Withers and @Per Henrik Lausten for leading me towards the solution.

For further reference, if someone needs it, here is how I show/hide the edit/hide the save buttons, depending on the read/write mode of the document:

// Save button
var showButton = currentDocument.isEditable();
var contxt = com.ibm.domino.xsp.module.nsf.NotesContext.getCurrent();
var isEditable = contxt.isDocEditable(currentDocument.getDocument());
return (isEditable && showButton);

// Edit button
var showButton = !currentDocument.isEditable();
var contxt = com.ibm.domino.xsp.module.nsf.NotesContext.getCurrent();
var isEditable = contxt.isDocEditable(currentDocument.getDocument());
return (isEditable && showButton);
Solution

  • Make sure that you test with a user with author access in the ACL of the database.

    Your code will always return true for users with editor access.