devdocs/solutions.txt

@@ -256,4 +256,6 @@ America/Los_Angeles
 	Create a new db, run this once: 
 	c:\data\code\postgres_14\bin\initdb -D ^"C^:^\data^\code^\postgres^_14^\ayanova^" -U postgres -A trust
 	that's it, run it with: 
-	C:\data\code\postgres_14\bin\pg_ctl -D ^"C^:^\data^\code^\postgres^_14^\ayanova^" -l logfile start
+	C:\data\code\postgres_14\bin\pg_ctl -D ^"C^:^\data^\code^\postgres^_14^\ayanova^" -l logfile start
+
+    Note: for test win64 build just copy the empty db files generated above (before any access is done) into the C:\data\code\raven\dist\win-x64\data\database folder

server/AyaNova/DataList/DataListSqlFilterCriteriaBuilder.cs

@@ -313,6 +313,51 @@ namespace AyaNova.DataList
                         }
                         #endregion build text ops criteria
                         break;
+
+
+                    case UiFieldDataType.Roles:
+                        {
+                            /*
+                            So Roles can be queried as contains or NOT contains with a bitwise &
+                            also a Equals or NOt equals with a direct equality comparison
+
+                            CONTAINS:
+                            User selects roles, query checks if a user has all the roles the user selected with this query:
+                            single OpsAdminRestricted (8192):
+                            select name, roles from auser where (roles & 8192 = 8192) order by name
+
+                            User has OpsAdminRestricted (8192) and SubContractorRestricted (512) which client will return as 8704:
+                            select name, roles from auser where (roles & 8704 = 8704) order by name
+                            brings up users with both opsadminrestricted and subconctractorrestricted and possibly others doesn't matter
+
+
+                            EQUALITY:
+                            just a simple = or <> i.e. where roles=4096 or roles!=4096
+
+
+                            */
+                            switch (sOperator)
+                            {
+                                case DataListFilterComparisonOperator.Equality:
+                                    sb.Append($"= ${sValue} ");
+                                    break;
+
+                                case DataListFilterComparisonOperator.NotEqual:
+                                    sb.Append($"<> ${sValue}");
+                                    break;
+                                case DataListFilterComparisonOperator.Contains:
+                                    sb.Append($"& ${sValue}=${sValue} ");
+                                    break;
+                                case DataListFilterComparisonOperator.NotContains:
+                                    sb.Append($"& ${sValue}!=${sValue} ");
+                                    break;
+                                default:
+                                    throw new System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException("OPERATOR_TYPE", sOperator, "DataListSqlFilterCriteriaBuilder unhandled operator type [" + sOperator + "] in ROLES");
+
+                            }
+                        }
+                        break;
+
                     case UiFieldDataType.Bool:
                         {
                             switch (sOperator)