What are reason logic hooks would work for Admin but not regular users?

I should correct myself.  The logic hooks for course name and curriculum Type were running, but blanking everything out.  I found  that I needed to replace the following even though there were no known permission issues.

$ctype = BeanFactory::getBean('Lev_Course_Catalog', $focus->lev_course_catalog_id_c); 

with

$ctype = BeanFactory::getBean('Lev_Course_Catalog', $focus->lev_course_catalog_id_c, array('disable_row_level_security' => true));

I should correct myself.  The logic hooks for course name and curriculum Type were running, but blanking everything out.  I found  that I needed to replace the following even though there were no known permission issues.

$ctype = BeanFactory::getBean('Lev_Course_Catalog', $focus->lev_course_catalog_id_c); 

with

$ctype = BeanFactory::getBean('Lev_Course_Catalog', $focus->lev_course_catalog_id_c, array('disable_row_level_security' => true));

BeanFactory::getBean('<module>', $id) will give you a new empty Bean if that id does not exist.

Whenever you know the ID I recommend you use BeanFactory::retrieveBean('<module>', $id)

this will give you the actual bean with that ID or nothing at all.

Then you can add a check in your code to make sure that the bean was actually retrieved, for example:

if (!empty ($focus->lev_course_catalog_id_c)){

  $LevBean = BeanFactory::retrieveBean('Lev_Course_Catalog', $focus->lev_course_catalog_id_c);

  if(!empty($LevBean)){

    //You've got the bean!

  }else{

    //No record found with that ID

  }

}else{

  //you didn't have an ID to start with

  $GLOBALS['log']->fatal("ERROR: $lev_course_catalog_id_c is empty"));

}