How to make a section of the form visible only to a named user

[OliverIshmael]

I would like to add an Audit section to my form, that only a specific user can see. Is there a way to do this using Arcade etc?

Also, I would like to add a switch to this section, so that the above user can choose to make it Publicly visible to all. 

[jcarlson]

For your first question, yes, that's easy enough. You can use the function GetUser, then check the username.

var the_user = GetUser($layer)['username']

return the_user == 'carlsonj9'

Having an expression like this in the conditional visibility setting of the form group will get it to behave as you describe.

For the second, that seems less doable, but maybe not impossible. How does this "switch" work? Is it something that operates per-feature? Do you have a field to store the value of the switch state?

[OliverIshmael]

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work - in that i can still see the Audit fields. However, as i'm an administrator, i don't know whether this is overriding it?

Regarding the second part with the switch, which would apply to each feature. I was planning to make use of the Field Maps Input Type: switch to control visibility but unsure what Arcade would be required.

[jcarlson]

I expect it would be due to your admin status. Do you have a test user you can use to see if it's working? Or a colleague?

As long as you have a field for "publicly visible" (let's call it "is_public"), you can set the Arcade condition to be

the_user == 'some_person' || $feature['is_public'] == 'yes

 This way the section appears for the specified user no matter what, but to other users if that 'is_public' field is switched to 'yes'.

[OliverIshmael]

Hi Josh,

I have now created 2 new users (who are not Admin) to test whether this works:

Ishmael_nrw   (the regular surveyor)

auditor_nrw    (the Auditor)

In the form I have added the following Arcade expression against the Auditor group of fields. The Visibility of Input Type: Group looks like this:

var the_user = GetUser()['username']

return the_user == 'auditor_nrw'

When i login as Ishmael_nrw I can still see the Auditor Group element and the fields within it (that should only be visible to auditor_nrw), so it isn't working as intended.  Can you tell me what to try next?

[OliverIshmael]

@jcarlson is there anything else i could try?