Re: [xwiki-users] Test in a virtual wiki if an user is in a group from main wiki

Hello, On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Pidoux75 <pidoux75(a)gmail.com> wrote: On a global group (a group on the main wiki), you can only add global users (users from the main wiki). - If the user for which you're testing isUserInGroup(..) is a local user (from the current wiki - virtual in our case), then false is the correct result. - If the user is global (from the main virtual wiki), then this is what is happening: 1) $xwiki.getUser() gets the global user - xwiki:XWiki.GlobalUserName 2) on the main wiki, this user is stored in the global group as being a local (on the main wiki) user - XWiki.GlobalUserName 3) if you try doing $xwiki.getUser('XWiki.GlobalUser') from the virtual wiki, it will search for this user inside the virtual wiki, and most probably there will be no such user - unless you have 2 users with the same username but on different wikis: local and global wiki - and even if there is such a local, the result should be false (I didn't test it) This is why you can't test from a virtual wiki if the current global user is in a global group. You should open a JIRA issue describing this problem (http://jira.xwiki.org) . Raluca.