Check permission granted to a trustee in Tridion Audience Manager AddressBook

Question

We are creating a custom application trying to get the contact list from address book.

The list of addressbooks is accessed using StaticAddressBook.GetList, it provides the list of all the addressbooks the usercontext can access. But the user might not have read permissions for some addressbooks.

Help would be appreciated if someone could guide me the way to figure out if the trustee is permitted to read the addressbook contacts.

Answer 1

I have done the below code and got the solution for my issue, if it helps someone else:

//UserContext.Current cant be used to getlist as there is a 
        foreach (StaticAddressBook addressBook in StaticAddressBook.GetList(new UserContext(), new TcmUri(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PublicationURI"])))
        {
            try
            {
                dictAddressBooks.Add(addressBook.Title, addressBook.Id.ToString());

                //to confirm if the user have read permission to the addressbook
                //if the user doesnt have permission then exception.
                int count = addressBook.GetContacts().Count();
            }
            catch
            {
                //Removing the address book if the user gets error on accessing the contacts
                dictAddressBooks.Remove(addressBook.Title);
            }

        }
        return dictAddressBooks;

The above code is actually a work around for the solution., and this is working fine.

If there is any other implementation in the cms libraries please update.

Answer 2

I do not suspect that this is an issue related to rights. Please refer Peter's blog HERE and a related question HERE.

I hope it helps.