RoleGroups and Roles

durban · January 24th, 2007, 09:55 AM

The following code behaves like a case statement. As soon as a matching role is found it exits. I have users that have multiple roles and I need to return all of their roles.

    <asp:LoginView ID="LoginView1" runat="server">
        <RoleGroups>
            <asp:RoleGroup Roles="Reporter">
                <ContentTemplate>
                    As a reporter you can update scores and match reports.
                </ContentTemplate>
            </asp:RoleGroup>
            <asp:RoleGroup Roles="Administrator">
                <ContentTemplate>
                    As an administrator you have full access to all admin pages.
                </ContentTemplate>
            </asp:RoleGroup>
            <asp:RoleGroup Roles="Owner">
                <ContentTemplate>
                    Hi Jim. As the owner you can change the news, the squad
                    and the match fixtures.
                </ContentTemplate>
            </asp:RoleGroup>
            <asp:RoleGroup Roles="Manager">
                <ContentTemplate>
                    As the manager you can edit the news and schedule matches.
                </ContentTemplate>
            </asp:RoleGroup>
        </RoleGroups>
    </asp:LoginView>

thanks dan

Tremmorkeep · May 11th, 2007, 08:54 AM

I dont know if you already got your answer. I'm sorry I havent been on the forums for a while. The answer is yes, there is a default. It is the <loggedintemplate> which, if no roles are found in the Rolegroups then this template will be the one shown. Best of luck!

lbennett · September 19th, 2007, 10:55 AM

I am having the same issue the roles are treating the content template as a case statement and I also need to return all roles associated to the user. Please help..

Imar · September 19th, 2007, 01:24 PM

Hi there,

This is a known limitation of the LoginView. Take a look at the docs: http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStar...loginview.aspx

Quote:

quote:There is no attempt by the control to merge all of the templates that the user is eligible to see based on all of their role group associations or to select the most privileged role group template. For example if a user is in both the customer and admin role groups and the customer template is sequentially before the admin template, that user will only ever see the customer template.

You can replicate the behavior quite easily with a few placeholders and some code behind:

Code:

<asp:Placeholder id="plcAdmin" runat="server/>
 As an administrator you have full access to all admin pages.
</asp:Placeholder>
<asp:Placeholder id="plcOwner" runat="server/>
  Hi Jim. As the owner you can change the news, the squad
  and the match fixtures.
</asp:Placeholder>

Combined with this code in the code behind:
plcAdmin.Visible = User.IsInRole("Administrator")
plcOwner.Visible = User.IsInRole("Owner")

Not ideal, but it may work for you....

Cheers,

Imar

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