How can a jsp page tell which Oracle Responsibility the user has selected?

Question

We have two responsibilities - Timecard Administrator and Timecard Viewer. Everything that they can access is the same, except for one particular jsp page which we want to present a slightly different view if the user's responsibility is Timecard Viewer (specifically, the edit link in the results page will be suppressed). Unfortunately in order to implement this, the jsp code needs to be able to distinguish which of those two responsibilities the user has selected. I have written jsp code to print all the environment variables and unfortunately the environment is essentially identical regardless of which of the two responsibilities the user selected.
How do I pass in the active responsibility to that page/environment in a way that can be tested by the jsp code?
Thank you,
Graham Toal <[email protected]>

Answer 1

Yes, I tried something like this (shortened to the basics for this post):
<pre>
sqlQuery="select responsibility_name from fnd_responsibility_vl where responsibility_id = FND_GLOBAL.RESP_ID";
stmt=con.createStatement();
rs=stmt.executeQuery(sqlQuery);
int field_count=rs.getMetaData().getColumnCount();
while (rs.next()) {
for (int i=0; i<field_count; i++) {
logger.write("Responsibility: "+rs.getObject(i+1),"JSP",objName,0,-1,1001);
</pre>
However it did not print any results at all.
I'm trying a different approach at the moment - I've cloned the menus from the Administrator responsibility to the new Viewer responsibility, and have altered the top-level menu so that I can insert a new variable into the process state myself; that way by the time the user navigates to the changed page, there should be a variable there that can be tested.
Unfortunately the top-level menu isn't just a simple menu, it's a piece of code that issues an HTML redirect depending on the parameter passed in - which is set in the Oracle function screen for the function attached to that menu.
(was something like utpa_top_menu.jsp?ADMIN and I changed it to utpa_top_menu.jsp?VIEWER, with appropriate tests for the new module name:
<tt>
else if ("VIEWER".equals(moduleName))
url = "/utpa/jsp/admin_reports-viewer.jsp";
</tt>
In admin_reports-viewer.jsp I've added <tt>session.putValue("REPVIEWER","y");</tt> and in the actual target main page I have:
<pre>
if (session.getValue("REPVIEWER") == "y") {
// viewer
out.println("<CENTER><B>You are using the Timecard Viewer responsibility</B></CENTER><BR>");
} else {
</pre>
And although the URL bar at the top of the screen is displaying the correct (redirected) URL, the page that is displayed is blank. Completely empty. 0 bytes. The file is present on the filing system; has content; has the correct ownership and permissions; I've reloaded apache, even had the systems guys reboot completely. I'm at a loss :-/
Graham