User menu privileges

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Hello!

At the moment when the user access the project is enabled to use some parts of the menu.
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so if not enable appear the prohibited icon on rollover

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I did it enabling those parts from numbers in the user notes with:

  if notes:
	            try:
	           
	                parts = notes.split(";")
	                for part in parts:
	                    if part.startswith("zones:"):
	                    
	                        zone_numbers = part.split(":")[1]
	                        enabled_zones = set(zone_numbers.split(","))
	                    elif part.startswith("access:"):
	                        # Get the access value and determine enabled items
	                        access_numbers = part.split(":")[1]
	                      
	                        enabled_access = [int(digit) for digit in access_numbers]

I would like to know if is possible to hide those parts of the menu instead, so they don´t appear to the user with no privileges.

Thanks and happy Christmas,
Alejandro

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If you build your menu's items by script

I can see three easy choices:

  1. Set items.n.enabled : true / false depending on role.
  2. Set items.n.style.display : none to hide the option with CSS.
  3. Omit the option from items.

That doesn't sound like a good plan. You should be using roles not users for ease of maintenance and so you don't have to edit the project to add a user.

If your menu is fixed (rather than scripted) then you can use an expression binding on enabled or style.display and something like
hasRole | Ignition User Manual to enable or show the option.

I think the opposite of display : none would be display : inline.

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def runAction(self):
	try:
	
	    horizontal_menu = self.getChild("root").getChild("HorizontalMenu_0")
	
	    if horizontal_menu is None:
	        raise AttributeError("HorizontalMenu component not found")
	
	    # Get the enabledAccess list from the session custom property
	    enabled_access = self.session.custom.enabledAccess
	
	    filtered_items = []
	    for index, item in enumerate(horizontal_menu.props.items):
	        # Check if index is within the range of enabledAccess
	        if index < len(enabled_access):
	            if enabled_access[index] > 0:  # Add to filtered list if enabled
	                filtered_items.append(item)
	
	    # Update the menu's items property with the filtered list
	    horizontal_menu.props.items = filtered_items
	
	except Exception as e:
	    # Log an error message if something went wrong
	    error_message = "Error setting menu item enabled state: {}".format(str(e))
	    system.util.getLogger("HorizontalMenu").error(error_message)

Finally I used this code enabling the menu items I want to use, with visibility class didn´t work.

In my case anything over 0 is enabled

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I not using roles because each usr has very specific privileges altough is probably the best way.