API for Officer channel?

[siweia]

Is there any API that tell someone can use officer channel?

"CanEditOfficerNote()" would not always have the right to view officer channel.

[Seerah]

Can't you just check the guild rank?

[SDPhantom]

Originally Posted by siweia Is there any API that tell someone can use officer channel? "CanEditOfficerNote()" would not always have the right to view officer channel.

CanEditOfficerNote() checks a different permission than the OFFICER channel. This function checks if you can set officer notes on members, which is a different mechanic entirely. There isn't a way to see if a specific rank has access to the guild's OFFICER channel without being the guild master.

Originally Posted by Seerah Can't you just check the guild rank?

The permissions for OFFICER channel is set by the guild master per rank. It isn't the same for every guild or for any specific rank globally.

[siweia]

Originally Posted by SDPhantom CanEditOfficerNote() checks a different permission than the OFFICER channel. This function checks if you can set officer notes on members, which is a different mechanic entirely. There isn't a way to see if a specific rank has access to the guild's OFFICER channel without being the guild master. The permissions for OFFICER channel is set by the guild master per rank. It isn't the same for every guild or for any specific rank globally.

OK then, thanks.

[Tim]

You will probably want to play with GuildControlGetRankFlags() - http://wow.gamepedia.com/API_GuildControlGetRankFlags

As SDPhantom already said though, different guilds set different permissions for ranks so you might have to implement a lot of checks to roughly guess whether or not they're an officer. Ideally only people that should return 1 in officerchat_speak would be officers but, who knows how every single person applies rank permissions.

[SDPhantom]

I had assumed that it would require guild leader to check permissions, but apparently, that's only to set them. The code below should work.

local _,_,rank=GetGuildInfo("player");--    Get our rank ID (0-based index)
GuildControlSetRank(rank+1);--  Set rank ID to check (1-based index)
local _,_,listen,speak=GuildControlGetRankFlags();--    Get permission flags
 
if listen and speak then
--  Do stuff
end

PS: Blizzard made a change recently that converted all functions that return 1/nil to boolean.