[Vtigercrm-developers] How to use server api to get information about assigned user, like their name?

nilay khatri nilay.spartan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 10:26:54 GMT 2020


Hi Alan,

We have implemented me api for the same.

I guess I have a merge request on git as well for the same.

Will share more details in sometime.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020, 7:50 PM Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on another idea for a module and to work within the rules of
> the Marketplace I am trying to use the server API vtws_retrieve to get
> information about the assigned_user_id of a record to display in a
> different environment. I am using vtws_retrieve to get the data from the
> original record, but I can't do the same to get "display" data regarding
> the assigned user...
>
> If I try something like:
>
> > vtws_retrieve('19x22', $current_user)
>
> And I am that current user, e.g. id 22, then the call fails with
> "Permission to perform the operation is denied"
>
> All I actually want is to get some of the basic data like the display
> name (first_name + ' ' + last_name) and maybe their email/phone etc...
>
> But this seems to be not possible.
>
> What is the correct way to do this? I could, or course use a different
> user to make these calls i.e. Users::getActiveAdminUser(), but I am not
> sure if that would be permitted by the marketplace rules.
>
> PS: Also in many ways, it's a lot easier using things like the record
> models as they have built in methods like getDisplayName()...
>
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