Application - onion.net Data source

The application functions extend the core functions of the onion.net Render Engine. They enable write access to the data stock for anonymous users. This means for example that contact requests, newsletter registrations or guest book entries can be saved in the system.

“Anonymous user” means that the person who initiates the actions is either not logged on in the system or has no user in the system. In order to write a guest book entry or register for a newsletter, no prior user registration should ultimately be necessary. However, there does have to be such an “anonymous” user in the onion.net Editor to perform the appropriate actions.
This user is configured in the “web.config” file of the preview. There is already a commented-out section there:

<!--application username="webapplication" password="TODO" /-->

Replace the password “TODO” with the password of your web application user and comment-in the section. Make sure that this user only has the authorizations he really needs. He should not be a user manager for example if this is not absolutely necessary. For all functions which have an influence on the user administration however, the web application user must also be the user administrator.

The following list provides an overview of the application functions. Click on the name of a function to find out more about its use.

Namespace: http://onionworks.net/2006/data/application

Name	Parameter	Return type	Description
addGroupInclude	groupReference:xlink includeReference:xlink	boolean	Adds a group (groupReference) below another group (includeReference).
checkIn	target:xlink [force:boolean]	boolean	Returns a checked-out element.
checkOut	target:xlink	boolean	The specified element borrows to the announced user out.
clearRight	groupReference:xlink target:xlink	boolean	Removes an object right from the group.
createBinary	filename:string mimeType:string	string	Writes a binary data object on the basis of a physical file or a link to a binary method in onion.net and returns the ReferenceIdentifier as the result.
createGroup	groupName:string	xlink	Creates a new group in the user administration.
createObject	parent:xlink name:string content:nodeset [autoCheckIn:boolean]	string	Adds new datasets to the content.
createSettings	userReference:xlink schemaLocation:string content:nodeset instance:string	xlink	Produces a document in the user profile for a user.
createUser	username:string password:string [role:string]	xlink	Creates a new user in the user administration.
deleteGroup	groupReference:xlink	xlink	Deletes a group from the user administration.
deleteObject	target:xlink [recursive:boolean]	boolean	Deletes elements from the structure.
deleteUser	userReference:xlink	boolean	Deletes the specified user from the user administration.
joinGroup	userReference:xlink groupReference:xlink	boolean	Adds a user to the specified group.
leaveGroup	userReference:xlink groupReference:xlink	boolean	Removes the specified user from the specified group.
lookupObject	parent:string name:string	string	Makes it possible to search for direct children.
memberOf	userReference:xlink, groupReference:string	boolean	Checks whether a user is member of a group.
moveObject	target:xlink newParent:string	boolean	Enables existing objects to be moved in the structure.
removeGroupInclude	groupReference:xlink includeReference:xlink	boolean	Removes the included group.
renameObject	target:xlink newName:string	boolean	Makes it possible to rename elements.
search	query:xml [returnFrom:int] [returnTo:int]	xml	Executes a personalised search query against the data stock.
setDisplayName	userReference:xlink name:string	void	Sets the display name for a user.
setObjectPosition	target:xlink position:int	boolean	Changes the position of elements in their own hierarchy level.
undoCheckOut	target:xlink	boolean	Discards the changes to the checked-out object and returns it.
updateObject	target:xlink newContent:nodeset	boolean	Saves changes to an existing object.
updatePassword	userReference:xlink newPassword:string [oldPassword:string]	boolean	Sets the password of a user.
updateUsername	userReference:string, username:string	string	Sets the username für a user.