Controlling who can edit a particular feature

CaseyBentz — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:34:02 GMT

I would like to set up a control mechanism that will only allow the user who created a feature to edit it. I have the creation user stored in the feature class and I send over the creation user when a new feature is created. I had tried setting these properties:

deleteEnabled="{Model.instance.userName == dg.selectedItem.info.CREATIONUSER}"
updateAttributesEnabled="{Model.instance.userName == dg.selectedItem.info.CREATIONUSER}"

updateGeometryEnabled="{Model.instance.userName == dg.selectedItem.info.CREATIONUSER}"

But this did not work because it appeared that the feature geometry was being created prior to the attribute of CREATIONUSER being set. What would happen is, I would draw the polygon and it would pop up the attribute editor window but I could not edit it because I believe the CREATIONUSER was not set when the attribute window opened. If I close the window and open it again, I can then edit the attributes. And this only happened some of the time. Sometimes it worked as I expected it to.

I have tried playing with the editsStarting event on the feature layer, and I can prevent the edit from being sent over, but I cannot get the attributes in the inspector to set back to the original value.

If anyone has had success with controlling when an edit is allowed, I would greatly appreciate any help.

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Controlling who can edit a particular feature