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I'm developing a managed package and I need the list of users with the license for the managed package within the package.
Any idea on where to start will help!
Overriding a standard button depending on whether user is licensed
This gave me some insight that I cannot use UserInfo object within the app. Am I on the right path?
As of Summer 14, there are 2 new objects which allow you to use SOQL to see which users are licensed for particular Managed Packages: PackageLicense and UserPackageLicense.
UserPackageLicense lets you see which users are licensed for a particular package:
String APP_NAMESPACE_PREFIX = 'skuid';
List<User> licensedUsers = [
SELECT Name
FROM User
WHERE Id in (
SELECT UserId
FROM UserPackageLicense
WHERE (PackageLicense.NamespacePrefix = :APP_NAMESPACE_PREFIX)
)
];
The UserPackageLicense object supports DML as well, so you could add triggers on User after insert/update that either assign available licenses on User activation or revoke licenses on User deactivation.
The PackageLicense object lets you see the stats on the number of licensed users available and currently in use in your org for a particular package, as well as when the app was installed and when it expires:
PackageLicense packageLicensing = [
SELECT AllowedLicenses, UsedLicenses,
ExpirationDate, CreatedDate,
IsProvisioned, Status
FROM PackageLicense
WHERE NamespacePrefix = :APP_NAMESPACE_PREFIX
LIMIT 1
];
Thoughts. As has been pointed out the UserInfo.isCurrentUserLicensed is of course for the current user, and since you can only impersonate users in a test context your out of luck here. I've had a look through the Salesforce API documentation to determine if there is any query able metadata about this and I didn't find any. I also considered the Metadata API, nothing here either. Shame as both of these could feasibly have been called from Apex if they did present a solution.
Conclusion and Recommendation for Salesforce. My conclusion is thus sadly for you, this is not possible, it would be a good use case for the Metadata API in my view, as a natural extension to the InstalledPackage component to contain a list of users.
But wait...never say never... so.... of course you can scrape the list of users from the Salesforce page itself, there are a few answers such as this one (screen scrape Salesforce with REST GET call from Apex) that go into more details on this approach. Wash thoroughly after reading this bit! ;-)
https://eu2.salesforce.com/ui/setup/mfpackage/UserLicenses/d?allPackageId=xxxxxxxxx&packageLicenseId=xxxxxxx
Alternative Approach: If you cannot get the list directly you may have to end up adding a checkbox to the User object, and asking those that assign Licenses to ensure it is checked and unchecked accordingly as part of their process. Its hopefully not something that is that frequent a task for this to be an overly big ask. Then you can use this in your code and/or in something like a Lookup Filter over the User.
Vignesh, I should put that custom button in another package, let's call it OptionsPack. Make OptionsPack unmanaged i.e. with no license, runnable by all, make it an extension package dependent on your package. Also, make sure that the stuff it calls is global in your package.
That button can now get UserInfob and inspect its licensing.
Just go to Setup->Install package->Package name->click Manage Licenses
you will get the list of users assigned
Hope this helps anyone in the world
Priya
