How to Retrieve a List of Locked User Accounts directly from SAP NetWeaver Portal

Background

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A problem ticket was created for a production issue wherein the SAP NetWeaver Portal application’s Unlock Users functionality is taking too long to even just list the all locked accounts from a specific country. During the investigation, I found out that the application first retrieves the list of user IDs from an Oracle database, and uses each user ID to determine whether or not an associated account in SAP NetWeaver Portal is locked or not.

There is a better way to do this. The available API allows for user account search using other user properties like country name, User Account Locked, Logon ID, and etc.

Software Environment

Windows 7 Professional SP1
Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 for Windows 32-bit
SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio Version 7.0.09 for Java
SAP NetWeaver Application Server
- sap.com/SAP-JEECOR – 7.00 SP26 (1000.7.00.26.1.20120307143343)
- sap.com/SAP-JEE – 7.00 SP26 (1000.7.00.26.0.20120109175405)

Create a Web Dynpro

First, create a new Development Component Project via File -> New -> Development Component Project. For this post, LocalDevelopment~unlockusertest~sap.com has been created.

Modify the View

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Place a TextView and DropDownByIndex UI components.

Then, modify the view’s context.

The Codes

Place the following codes in the wdDoModifyView() method and within //@begin wdModifyView and //@end lines

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try {
    IUserAccountSearchFilter filter = UMFactory.getUserAccountFactory().getUserAccountSearchFilter();
    
    // We'll search for locked accounts 
    filter.setLocked(true);
    
    IUserFactory usrFactory      = UMFactory.getUserFactory();  
    IUserSearchFilter usrFilter  = usrFactory.getUserSearchFilter();

    // We'll search for accounts from Australia
    usrFilter.setCountry("Australia", 0, false);
    
    // Execute the search
    ISearchResult result = usrFactory.searchUsers(usrFilter, filter );

    int i = 0; // For counter
    while(result.hasNext()) {
        IPrivateTestView.IVn_userIdsElement e = wdContext.createVn_userIdsElement();

        String userId = (String) result.next();			
        IUser currentUser = usrFactory.getUser(userId);

        e.setUserId(currentUser.getUniqueName());

        // Add to a Value node in the context
        wdContext.nodeVn_userIds().addElement(e);
        i++;
    }

    // Set the value for TextView UI component
    wdContext.currentContextElement().setVn_idCount(i);
} catch(Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

try {

IUserAccountSearchFilter filter = UMFactory.getUserAccountFactory().getUserAccountSearchFilter();

// We'll search for locked accounts

filter.setLocked(true);

IUserFactory usrFactory = UMFactory.getUserFactory();

IUserSearchFilter usrFilter = usrFactory.getUserSearchFilter();

// We'll search for accounts from Australia

usrFilter.setCountry("Australia", 0, false);

// Execute the search

ISearchResult result = usrFactory.searchUsers(usrFilter, filter );

int i = 0; // For counter

while(result.hasNext()) {

IPrivateTestView.IVn_userIdsElement e = wdContext.createVn_userIdsElement();

String userId = (String) result.next();

IUser currentUser = usrFactory.getUser(userId);

e.setUserId(currentUser.getUniqueName());

// Add to a Value node in the context

wdContext.nodeVn_userIds().addElement(e);

i++;

}

// Set the value for TextView UI component

wdContext.currentContextElement().setVn_idCount(i);

} catch(Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

A Locked User Account For Testing

Sample Output

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The TextView UI component displays the number of retrieved locked accounts while the DropDownByKey UI component displays the user IDs of the locked accounts.