I can get thing like the user's email with something like this
<% =UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo().Email %>
But how can I get a custom created profile property to display in the skin?
The closest thing I could find was something like this:
UserProfile.GetPropertyValue("Company");
But I get this error:
An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserProfile.GetPropertyValue(string)'
You still need to start from the current user, so it would be something like this:
UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo().Profile.GetPropertyValue("Company")
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I'm trying to create a new User in Active Directory from a VB.NET application. Most fields will be identical to an already existing "template" user, except things like Name, SurName, Email, SamAccountName, etc.
So I want to copy or clone this template User, assign the few fields with a new/different value and then save this new user in Active Directory. I'd like to avoid having to manually assign who-knows how many properties from my template to the new User and maybe forget something along the way..
Is there not a way to do that? I found something about using DirectoryEntry.CopyTo(), but I simply get a "Not implemented" error, and anyway I doubt this is the right direction (Unsure how to use this class together with a UserPrincipal object)
Should I be using a different class than System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal to save my new user in the AD? Do I have the wrong approach?
Any help will be appreciated :)
If you look at the source code for DirectoryEntry.CopyTo, it calls:
newParent.ContainerObject.CopyHere(Path, newName)
And ContainerObject is of the type IADsContainer. If you look at the documentation for IADsContainer.CopyHere, it says (under Remarks):
The providers supplied with ADSI return the E_NOTIMPL error message.
ADSI is "Active Directory Service Interfaces". So the short answer is that it just won't work with AD objects.
There is no way to do what you want. You will have to manually assign each attribute you want to copy.
I'm trying to display some error messages from my model in Rails. Currently, when an exception is caught in my test model and raised, the messages are returned as expected in the errors scope of my object. The messages are returned as follows:
{:key1=>["Your key needs to be different."],
:key2=>["Another exception"]}
This is perfect, as the correct exceptions are being thrown for the correct errors. What I'm trying to do now is bind these messages to the flash scope so that I can display them on my view. In my controller, when I have an exception, I then bind it to the flash[:error] scope as follows:
flash[:error] = #test.errors.messages
render :new
Upon doing this, my errors are bound to the flash scope, but when I output them on my view, they are displayed as follows:
[:error, {:key1=>["Your key needs to be different."], :key2=>["Another exception"]}]
All I'd like to do is display each one of these messages so that they look to be like:
Your key needs to be different.
Another exception.
Notice that in the above example, all that will be rendered is the message text.
Will you please point me in the right direction as to what I need to change either in my controller or in my view to achieve the desired output above?
Thank you in advance.
The one place I immediately see for improvement is in the hash you're passing.
If there's not a specific reason you're wrapping your strings in an array, you can eliminate the array:
{
:key1 => "Somebody poisoned the watering hole!",
:key2 => "There's a snake in my boot."
}
That will both simplify your code and eliminate the two-dimensional array you didn't seem to be intending to create.
If there is a reason you're wrapping your strings in an array (multiple messages per key?), you'll need to revisit your iterator; the way it's written now, it's only going to display the first string for any given key.
I noticed that when I looped over #test.errors.messages in the following construct, I ended up with a 2-Dimensional array:
[:key1, ["Your key needs to be different."]]
[:key2, ["Another exception"]]
Since this is a multidimensional array, I was able to then simply loop over the array in my erb and get the value to display as requested in my question:
<% for i in flash[:error] %>
<%= i[1].first %><br />
<% end %>
Returns on the screen:
Your key needs to be different.
Another exception.
I'm always open to suggestions, so if there's a better way to handle this, then please advise! Otherwise, this does work for me.
Currently my URL's appear as www.website.com/entries/1, I'd like to make them appear as www.website.com/title-of-entry. I've been messing around with routes and have been able to get the entry title to display in the URL, but Rails is unable to find the entry without supplying an ID. If I send the ID along with the parameters, the URL appears as www.website.com/title-of-entry?=1. Is there anyway I can pass the ID without having it appear in the URL as a parameter? Thanks!
Like most things, there's a gem for this.
FriendlyID.
Installation is easy and you'll be up and running in minutes. Give it a whirl.
Ususally you'll want to to save this part in the database title-of-entry (call the field slug or something`). Your model could look something like this:
class Entry < ActiveRecord::Base
before_validation :set_slug
def set_slug
self.slug = self.title.parameterize
end
def to_param
self.slug
end
end
Now your generated routes look like this: /entries/title-of-entry
To find the corresponding entries you'll have to change your controller:
# instad of this
#entry = Entry.find(params[:id]
# use this
#entry = Entry.find_by_slug(params[:id])
Update
A few things to bear in mind:
You'll have to make sure that slug is unique, otherwise Entry.find_by_slug(params[:id]) will always return the first entry with this slug it encounters.
Entry.find_by_slug(params[:id]) will not raise a ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception, but instead just return nil. Consider using Entry.find_by_slug!(params[:id]).
If you really want your routes to look like this /title-of-entry, you'll probably run into problems later on. The router might get you unexpected results if a entry slug looks the same as another controller's name.
So I have a half a dozen static pages such as about us, security, FAQ, etc. How can I change the page title from the default on these pages? I've tried a few tricks from just Rails like helper class, #page.title, etc. and it doesn't seem to work.
I saw this question: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/spree-user/title$20/spree-user/I6NSK7hG1Kk/i0kfcqiDIUYJ
But that didn't work either, I get undefined method `title=' for nil:NilClass.
Then I found this:
http://guides.spreecommerce.com/release_notes_0_9_0.html
Doesn't work either.
Seems like it should be simple...
Looks like it was simple, the Google Groups solution was:
<% #controller.title = 'The title you want to use on the page you'd like to use it on' %>
However:
<% controller.title = 'The title you want to use on the page you'd like to use it on' %>
works just fine; so it was close just a pesky #
I am creating a sortable list of items from my database using the railscast found here: http://railscasts.com/episodes/228-sortable-table-columns
The sorting works fine, but when the page displays, it seems to print out some sort of hash above the table according to the number items. Each unit looks something like this:
#<ActiveRecord::Relation:0x00000006f9a500>
I've checked the html code and there is nothing in it that prints anything. Is this some sort of debug statement? How do I get it to stop printing?
You are printing object, but you need only one attribute.
Do something like this:
<%= your_object.YOUT_ATTRIBUTE %>