Create a Role using QB API's
Hey guys! I am trying to create a role automatically whenever a new record is added to a table. Sadly, and for some reason, this is the only thing that the QB APIs doesn't have access to. Does an...
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MarkShnier__You
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Qrew LegendI will make you a deal. If you promise not to make an app with so many roles, I will promise to find a solution that does not need to have many roles.
Can you describe why why you feel you need so many roles?
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
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Can you describe why why you feel you need so many roles?
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
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markshnier2@gmail.com
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We are making an app that we will be selling as a service to multiple companies. Each company has access to only their information, and we have a system set up that will filter out information that isn't there based on the role that they were given.
Essentially we need some way to filter their information so they only see their information and no one elses.
For each company there will be two types of people, and possibly others in the future: Admin and Normal.
The best way we have thought to do this is with roles, and what we have works, we just have to make each role manually, which takes time and is prone to errors, which is why I wanted to use an API to make it happen automatically.
What are your thoughts? This is the only way we could think of to silo the information in the way we needed.
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Sterling Long
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Essentially we need some way to filter their information so they only see their information and no one elses.
For each company there will be two types of people, and possibly others in the future: Admin and Normal.
The best way we have thought to do this is with roles, and what we have works, we just have to make each role manually, which takes time and is prone to errors, which is why I wanted to use an API to make it happen automatically.
What are your thoughts? This is the only way we could think of to silo the information in the way we needed.
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Sterling Long
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- MarkShnier__YouThat is what I suspected. But when i get a chance I will honor my promise. If you promise not to do a brute force solution with a zillion Roles, I will post back with how to do this with 1 Role. .. later today. Gotta run to meetings now.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
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------------------------------- So my first thought when I found that I could not create a role using the api was to possibly have two fields for each company that we bring on, and use whether or not they were in a specified field to filter the information.
This does not however give us the ability to have both admin and normal rights for those users, as far as I know.
Company admins will need to be able to add additional users to their company as they see fit, and promote them to admin if they desire. Normal company users should not be able to add other users. It is possible as well that we will end up adding additional roles, like view only as a lite user? Not sure.
Any flexibility or direction you can give us would be appreciated. Thank you!
- Sterling Long!
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That is what I suspected. But when i get a chance I will honor my promise. If you promise not to do a brute force solution with a zillion Roles, I will post back with how to do this with 1 Role. .. later today. Gotta run to meetings now.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
Your Quick Base Coach
http://QuickBaseCoach.com
markshnier2@gmail.com
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