Is it possible to read a system tag in a template and see the value in the designer in run mode?
I am trying to read the [System].Client.User.RoleString, but in the designer in run mode it gives me a “None” value eventhough the tag has “Administrator” value?
How did you bind it? Works for me.
Does it work in the designer?
I used below concept
server = "Ignition OPC UA Server"
path = "[SLCSim]_Meta:N7/N7:0"
qualifiedValue = system.opc.readValue(server, path)
print "Value: " + str (qualifiedValue.getValue())
print "Quality: " + qualifiedValue.getQuality().toString()
print "Timestamp: " + qualifiedValue.getTimestamp().toString()
But now I have changed my code to do the following what seems to work.
roles = system.user.getRoles(“”)
for role in roles:
if role == “Administrator”:
RoleAdmin = True
else:
RoleAdmin = False
Do you need the true false, or just the role displayed?
Actual my code is not working. it will always result in True because I have a role that is “Administrator”
What I am trying to accomplish is to check in the template if the current user has a role as
“Administrator”. This can be a true/false flag.
That was the reason I was trying to read the [System]Client.User.Rolestring.Value
But why do you need to know the users role? also you can test with a generic user you create.
What are you trying to do/hide/ etc…?
The reason is that if the user has a role status of “Administrator”
the user will be able to change the size of a circle and a bunch of more stuff, but if the user does not have that status of “Administrator” then he will not be able to see the components to change the size of a circle and a whole bunch of other stuff.
So the role will be used to hide or unhide components.
After some digging I am getting closer. I was on the wrong track. Now I have this code but the line
Roles = user.getRoles fails? I am not sure why
userName = system.security.getUsername()
print “userName : " + userName
if userName == “Ignition”:
user = system.user.getUser(”", userName)
Roles = user.getRoles
When you add code, you need to use the pre-formatted block otherwise the text loses all formatting 
Also,
We're not sure why either, as you haven't given us the error message 
In scripting, to get the currently logged in user's roles you can use:
system.security.getRoles()
system.user.getUser requires the user source, you can't just leave this blank.
If you want to use it in an expression though, you should be able to read the tag [System]Client/User/RolesString as you said. You had dots instead of slashes though?
This is the error I get trying to read that tag path with dots instead:
Thank you Nick.
It works.
That was much simpler then what I was doing.
Also thank you for the code formatting tip. I am new to this forum and this will help me.
Marcel.