Create a drop down with Supervisor's employees

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ISO Dan
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    What I am trying to do is create a drop list in Portal/Design Studio with the Supervisor's direct report.  So when a supervisor logs in he/she can only see their direct reports.

    Can anyone direct me on how to create this drop down?
    John Henley
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      If you have Lawson security properly set up, you don't even need to...security will be applied to the EMPLOYEE table, filter out any records that are not the employee or his/her direct reports. To answer your question, however, you need to look up the HRSUPER record (using HSUSET3 index) to get the supervisor CODE for the company/employee, then use PATHFIND table (using PTFSET2 index) with the COMPANY, FLD-NBR = 18, and FLD-VALUE = supervisor CODE from the HRSUPER record, to see direct reports of that supervisor.
      Thanks for using the LawsonGuru.com forums!
      John
      Robert Spurr
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        Can't address the security option but I can provide an example of filling a list box. In the example below I'm pulling active buyers and filling a list object I added to the form.

        function FORM_OnAfterDataInit()
        {
        //
        //Collects current productline
        //
        var strPDL = portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("productline");

        //
        //DME call get get all active non-contract buyers with operator ID's
        //
        var s = "?PROD="+strPDL;
        s += "&FILE=BUYER&COND=ACTIVE&SELECT=OPERATOR%2DID%21%3D";
        s += "&FIELD=BUYER-CODE;NAME;OPERATOR-ID";
        s += "&OUT=XML&MAX=200";

        //
        //Makes call
        //
        var sReturn = portalWnd.httpRequest(portalWnd.DMEPath + s);

        //
        //Checks for errors
        //
        if (!sReturn || sReturn.status)
        {
        var msg="Error calling DME ";
        msg += (sReturn
        ? "(status code): " + sReturn.status
        : "bad server response.");
        alert(msg);
        return true;
        }

        //
        //Assigns return to a new object
        //
        var vObjDMEXML = new portalWnd.DataStorage(sReturn);

        //
        //Breaks object into records
        //
        var vRecord = vObjDMEXML.document.getElementsByTagName("RECORD");

        //
        //Checks to see if no data was returned
        //
        if (vRecord.length == 0)
        {
        return true;
        }

        //
        //Variables defined to fill listbox
        //
        var BuyerList = document.getElementById("VALUES_l214");
        var ListVal;

        //
        //Fills listbox
        //
        for (var ix=0; ix < vRecord.length - 1 ; ix++)
        {
        var vCols = vRecord[ix].getElementsByTagName("COL");

        var str = vCols[1].firstChild.data;
        var str1 = vCols[2].firstChild.data;

        ListVal = document.createElement("span");

        ListVal.setAttribute("text",str);
        ListVal.setAttribute("tran",str);
        ListVal.setAttribute("disp",str1);

        BuyerList.appendChild(ListVal);
        }

        }
        ISO Dan
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          Thank you Robert, that it what I was looking for
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