topic Re: Set user during an applyEdits operation in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Set user during an applyEdits operation

AlexMagruder — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:35:24 GMT

I am exploring Editor Tracking and how it can be used in our production environment. Our arcgis server (10.1) is set to windows authentication which is bound to our companies User Directory. So when we create a web app for external clients, users cannot login using the IdentityManager. All gis services are routed through a proxy and authentication is handled by our windows server using forms authentication. This causes all applyEdits to be tracked as Esri_Anonymous. Is there a way to set the user for an applyEdits operation without using the IdentityManager?

Thanks for the help!!

Re: Set user during an applyEdits operation

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:59:20 GMT

Alex,

Do you have access to the user info from the forms authentication? If so then you can add a before-apply-edits event handler and place the user name into the data using code.

Re: Set user during an applyEdits operation

AlexMagruder — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:17:14 GMT

Robert,

I've given this a try but no luck. The applyEdits operation sets both the created_user and last_edited_user to an empty string.

Thanks,

Alex

Re: Set user during an applyEdits operation

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:22:19 GMT

Alex,

With out you manually providing the user info in code I would expect them to be empty. As I mentioned in my previous post if you have access to the user info from your forms authentication you can manually add that info using the before-apply-edits event

Re: Set user during an applyEdits operation

AlexMagruder — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 05:39:34 GMT

Here is a snippet of code where I manually set the Editor Tracking user info. When I look at the request being sent to the server all Editor Tracking fields were removed from the graphics.

var userName = "Alex Magruder";
var userEdits = {
   created_user: userName,
   last_edited_user: userName
};
on(layer, "before-apply-edits", function(data){
  data.adds.forEach(function(graphic){
       lang.mixin(graphic.attributes, userEdits);
  });
});

Graphic after before-apply-edits	ApplyEdits request form data
{"attributes":{ "OfflineID":null, "Comments":null, "Value1":null, "created_user":"Alex Magruder", "last_edited_user":"Alex Magruder" }}	{"attributes":{ "OfflineID":null, "Comments":null, "Value1":null }}

Graphic after before-apply-edits

ApplyEdits request form data

{"attributes":{
  "OfflineID":null,
  "Comments":null,
  "Value1":null,
  "created_user":"Alex Magruder",
  "last_edited_user":"Alex Magruder"
}}

{"attributes":{
  "OfflineID":null,
  "Comments":null,
  "Value1":null
}}

Re: Set user during an applyEdits operation

JordanBaumgardner — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:16:16 GMT

We add this to our main page to make it easy for the JS

@{string userName = User.Identity.Name;}

@Html.Hidden("hfUserName", userName)

Re: Set user during an applyEdits operation

AbdulMateen — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:18:31 GMT

hi,

I am in to same issue ,did you find any solution?

Thanks & Regards