Groups and permissions

In this section, we’ll cover how to set up permissions in your Slingr app. We’ll create a new field for tasks to identify the user assigned to each task. Additionally, we’ll create two groups: Manager and Support. The users in the Manager group will have access to all tasks, while the users in the Support group will only be able to see tasks assigned to them and won’t be able to reassign tasks or change the task title.

Create the field “Assignee” on tasks #

To start, let’s create the new field for tasks:

1. Right-click on the node Model > Entities > Tasks > Fields, and select New Field from the dropdown menu.

2. Fill in the form with the following details:

• Label: Assignee
• Name: assignee
• Type: Relationship
• Related entity: System > Users

3. Click on Create and Edit.

4. Set the Default value to Script.

5. Complete the field Script.

return sys.context.getCurrentUserRecord();

6. Save the changes.

Create “Managers” group #

Now let’s add the two new groups:

1. Click the node Security > Groups.

2. Click on the Create button on the top-right of the page.

3. Fill in the form with:

• Label: Manager
• Name: manager

4. Click on Create and Edit.

5. Now we need to add permissions to access entities and views. Click on the node Security > Groups > Manager > Entity permissions.

6. Select the Task entity and then click on Apply permissions:

7. There select the option Read/write and click on Apply.

8. Then click on the configuration button under the Edit column, and configure fields permissions so fields Status and Rank are read-only.

9. Now, select the System > Users entity and then click on Apply permissions, and this time select Read-Only.

10. Finally, click the Apply button on the top-right of the listing to persist changes.

11. Click on the node Security > Groups > Manager > View permissions.

12. Set the flag in the column Permission for both views:

13. Finally, click the Apply button on the top-right of the listing to persist changes.

Create a “Support” group #

Now that we have our first group, create a new group called Support, and add some permissions to it:

1. Click on the node Security > Groups > Support > Entity permissions.

2. In the Tasks entity, click on the configuration button under the Edit column.

3. Configure entity permissions like this:

4. Configure field permissions like this:

5. Configure action permissions like this:

6. Click on Apply.

7. Now, select the System > Users entity, click on Apply permissions, and select Read-Only.

8. Save changes by clicking on Apply.

9. Configure view permissions in Security > Groups > Support > View permissions in the same way as for managers.

Now that we have created the groups and defined their permissions, let’s push the changes so we can use these groups when creating users.

Create different users #

It’s time to create a few users (make sure you have pushed the changes before):

1. Click on the node Security > Users.

2. Click on the Create button at the top right of the page.

3. Fill in the form with:

• First name: Manager1
• Last name: Test
• Email: manager1@test.com
• Generate Password: true
• Groups: Add the Manager group as Primary

4. Click on Create to save the user.

Then repeat the same process for these users:

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Awesome! We have finished this section and are almost done with our app.

In the next section, we will learn how to work with different users in the runtime.