a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

[Steve Workings]

Just the stuff below on test.a5w.

It returns a valid Ulink in the local webroot, and in the Interactive. But when I put it on the remote server, it returns a blank.

I'm confident that the guid is valid, that the security files are properly and completely on the server. Yet, nothing. Blank. And the person who usually has an answer for me also says he's stumped.

n.b. it's not just with this guid, but all of them in the project.

Any ideas?

<%A5
?a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid("560ef6d890cb493ca70b56497d86a64a")
%>

[ColinJD]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

but all of them in the project

May be that is the clue !
Do you have a backup of you web-security files that you can overwrite the current ones with.
Or maybe re-index and re-pack same files
560ef6d890cb493ca70b56497d86a64a is 32-BYTES is the users file still this ?
Admittedly I'm guessing here.

[Steve Wood]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

If you are sure the websecurity_users file contain a match to that guid, then perhaps the Guid.SecuritySettings associated with this project has the same value as another project on your same server.

Note to others - the Guid.SecuritySettings contains a GUID value, but it is different than the GUID(s) assigned to users in the security file.

[Steve Workings]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

Steve - can I just change that value and re-publish? Or is it a critical link that needs to be left alone?

[Steve Wood]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

You can always delete the guid.securitysettings file and it will recreate when you publish ANY one or more files. The value does not link to anything. I delete that file, on both the project side and the server side (you need to delete both) at the beginning of a project if I copied that project from another project. The value in that file MUST be unique to your project on a given server.

[Steve Workings]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

Colin - thanks. Everything's been republished many times.

Steve - thanks too. I deleted both files, republished, and still no Ulink value.

[Steve Wood]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

And you are sure that GUID exists in the websecurity_users table on the server? I mean you have opened the websecurity_users table in Excel or Alpha and determined that GUID exists and that same record has a ULINK value?

[Dan Blank]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

Are you using the same database with two different projects, and both projects using it own security set up? I had an instance where I tried using two project folders from the same database. Each project published to its own folder. When I tried to use the security, it always defaulted to the older security files.

I had to create a new database to get the security files to work for the second project.

Just a thought.

[Steve Workings]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

Steve -

I've verified that web_users.dbf has the values I expect.

Dan -

One database, not a copy of anything else, one project for the database.

[Steve Workings]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

Just bumping this up. Any more ideas?

[Dan Blank]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

The only thing I can suggest is to put the project on the remote server, put A5 on the remote server, connect with remote desktop. Then open the project and publish the security files that way (naturally set up the profile).

I know it shouldn't matter, but I have had some funny things happen (not with the security) when publishing from my development machine to a server. By working directly on the server, things seem to work better. Take it for what it is worth.

[Steve Wood]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

I don't know by what process the indexes get updated for the websecurity files, but perhaps it is an index corruption problem on the server. Maybe delete the indexes and use a function to reindex, or let security recreate the index files - again I don't know how or when they do this. I've just been told they are self-maintaining.

[Steve Workings]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

Well, I got it working. Thanks to Jerry Brightbill for his suggestion, and everyone else for your time & suggestions.

filename = request.ApplicationRoot + "websecurity_users.dbf" 
if file.exists(filename) 
	user_guid = request.variables.guid
	vID = table.external_record_content_getfilename, "ulink","","guid=\""+user_guid+"\"")  
end if

This pretty much mimics the function code of a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid(), and it works.

I probably should have thought of this / tried this a long time ago, and still don't know why the a5ws function doesn't work here.

[ColinJD]

Re: a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()

Glad to see that you have achieved a workaround,
although it would be comforting to know why the a5ws_get_ulink_from_guid()
doesn't function.