Hi all

I got a tricky problem...

I have a menu and put some menu items through menu item editor and those items are sticked to respective pages using NavigateUrl property. I have created some roles i.e. administrators and users for accessing and updating my application. I have also defined some rules to access those menu items.

Suppose follwoing is the menu and its menu items

-admin
    *add user
    *view user
-school
    *add school
    *view school

I want to remain add school menu item invisible when a non administrator visists there ... I did the same keeping the SiteMap as the data source for the menu control and modifying the web.config(securityTrimmingEnabled = "true" )file.



I hope you understood the whole scenario ....

Abdul Ghaffar

Abdul,

What you need to do is detect the role of the logged in user in the code behind, probably in the page_load event (though there are other events you could handle).

In that page_load event handler, you can set the menu items programmaticaly there after you detect what role the logged in person is a member of. By programmiticaly setting the menu items, you will insure only the correct menu items are available.

Here's an example of how to add an item to a Menu control:

Neil Timmerman
Programmer
Veris Consulting

Agreed. The secnario that Neil described is exactly the way that I handle my entire Menu system throughout my intranet; the only difference being I do not assign permissions to users, I assign permissions to Roles (and users belong to roles). I find this to be alot easier to manage then dealing with each individual user.

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Hi ...

Thank you very very much Neil & Parson ... I finally did what i wished to ... actually i used a masterpage and on page_load event handler of that page I programatically added the menu items according to roles which I have given to various users.

Once again thank you very much for your valuable replies...

Abdul Ghaffar