I have been playing with D2W and I may have boxed myself into a corner.

A User is of a type. a User can be a Vendor or a Client or a Worker. So I 
thought that I would create an attribute 'userType' in User. I wanted  to have 
a Vendor tab and a Client tab and I have it mostly working. 

when I create a ListVendorPage:

public WOComponent listVendorAction() {
          
          EOEditingContext ec = ERXEC.newEditingContext();
    ListPageInterface lpi = (ListPageInterface) 
D2W.factory().listPageForEntityNamed("AppUser", session()); 

    EODatabaseDataSource ds = new EODatabaseDataSource(ec, "AppUser");

    ERXFetchSpecification<AppUser> fs = 
        new ERXFetchSpecification<AppUser>(AppUser.ENTITY_NAME, 
AppUser.IS_ACTIVE.eq(true).and(AppUser.USER_TYPE.eq("Vendor")), null);

    ds.setFetchSpecification(fs);

    lpi.setDataSource(ds);

    ((D2WComponent) lpi).d2wContext().takeValueForKey("ListVendor", 
"navigationState");
    ((D2WComponent) lpi).d2wContext().takeValueForKey("Vendor", "userTypeKey");
    
    return (D2WPage) lpi;
}

I am also adding that userTypeKey so I can target rules like this:

100 : (pageConfiguration = 'ListAppUser' and userTypeKey = 'Vendor') => 
displayNameForPageConfiguration = "Vendor List" 
[com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment]

Maybe there is a better way? If I select to edit a Vendor, I wanted rules:

100 : (pageConfiguration = 'EditAppUser' and userTypeKey = 'Vendor') => 
navigationState = "ListVendor" [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment]
100 : (pageConfiguration = 'EditAppUser' and userTypeKey = 'admins') => 
navigationState = "ListAdmins" [com.webobjects.directtoweb.Assignment]

then I thought that what I should be using is inheritance.  Vendor inherits 
from User, Administrators inherit from User. In the past, I would have created 
a User with boolean attributes for  Vendor, Client, Employee, Admin. After all 
a user can be both an employee and a vendor.

How are youse guys doing this?

Ted
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