Lower User Roles not allowed to create higher Role

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saw that pic haha…

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OK so I’m probably going way off hand here, but:

function userEntity(entityName,entityType) {
  var usr = (typeof entityName === 'undefined' || entityName=='' ? Data.Get("Username") : entityName);
  api.Entity(entityName).Type('Staff');
  return 'Updated';
}

Object doesn’t support this property or method is the error it throws…

I did make a new action in the rule and told it setting of entityName is same as Username

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Ok so the api does not need to do any validation in your code. Let me give an example.

… one second.

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how blimmin dare it!

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here is a check for Employee Type if it does exist it then executes 4 api calls. So you would do the same thing but for Entity exists instead of Entity Type.

var exists = api.EntityType('Employees').Exists();
if(!exists)
{
   api.EntityType('Employees').Create('Employee','TCStatus=PunchOut;TCReport=Unloaded');
   api.EntityType('Employees').Fields('Password').Create('string');
   api.EntityType('Employees').Fields('Pay Rate').Create('number');
   api.EntityType('Employees').Fields('Operator Number').Create('number');
}
result = true;

That might look like:

if (api.Entity('+employee+').Exists())
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Ok, I understand that… but where is it calling the ‘Employee’ from? or is it going to go at the end of my script?

I only need it to create the Name and Type

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api.EntityType(‘Employees’).Create(‘Employee’,‘TCStatus=PunchOut;TCReport=Unloaded’);

that created an entity and also set its default status.

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wait I think I get it…

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api.Entity(’[:Employee Name]’).Create(‘Employees’);
api.Entity(’[:Employee Name]’).Data(‘Password’).Update(’[:Entry PIN]’);
api.Entity(’[:Employee Name]’).Data(‘Pay Rate’).Update(’[:Pay Rate]’);
api.Entity(’[:Employee Name]’).Data(‘Operator Number’).Update(’[:Operator Number]’);
dlg.AskQuestion(‘Employee named [:Employee Name] added.’,‘OK’);

You will have to modify it… I am showing you some code I used for my time clock Configuration Task. For example ‘Employees’ is a variable I defined in the task… you will have to define it in your jscript.

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By golly I think were there.

I managed to add an employee entity called [:Username] though lol ill work that out

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Haha that only works from config tasks. to feed a variable like that you need to use automation.

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so needs to go in an automation?

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No you got it working but you need to feed the actual Entity name from somewhere. [:EntityName] does nothing inside that script… i used that because it was a configuration task.

For your use it might look like (’+entity+’)

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ok, well I read what you put about configuration and created a task and added the api

Is that correct?

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Oh so your trying to use config task?

So if you want it to work like that then you need to define [:EntityName] here is how.

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no idea lol that’s what I thought u said to do above?

what I tried gave me an error

Value cannot be null

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I just was showing example jscript syntax… you could just use it in a script and use automation to feed values.

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Show what you have tried?

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I confused you because I am using specific syntax for config task. Sorry I dont have time to keep going but JTRTech should be able to see what I was trying to show.

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Well, I thought it could already get the data of [:Username] from the script already created for creating the user?

So that’s why I put the script there with that [:Username] in

So, I guess that’s not correct?