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wtholmes

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Using an External Source for current user in Roles Manager.

Jun 22, 2012 04:15 PM|LINK

Hello,

I am using a External Authentication System that returns to me the current logged on user (Please do not ask why or if I can use the stuff built into ASP .NET or AD because these are not a option).

What I would like to do is given that I trust the information provided by from the external authentication system I would like to be able to use it in the Roles Manager.

I want to define a few roles and then add users to them (using the user names provided by the external authentication system) as a string. Given that I want to get the roles that the user is in from the roles manager. The goal is to control the portions of a web page that are visible based on the role a user is in.

For example given this type of page I want to be able to have a person in the administrator role get Munu Items A,B,C and and a custormer role to get Menu Items Q,R,S.

Thanks

Bill

<asp:LoginView ID="LoginView1" runat="server">
                    <RoleGroups>
                        <asp:RoleGroup Roles="administrator">
                            <ContentTemplate>
                                <asp:Menu ID="NavigationMenu" runat="server" CssClass="menu" EnableViewState="false"
                                    IncludeStyleBlock="false" Orientation="Horizontal" ItemWrap="True">
                                    <Items>
                                        <asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/a.aspx" Text="A" />
					<asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/b.aspx" Text="B" />
					<asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/c.aspx" Text="C" />
                                    </Items>
                                </asp:Menu>
                            </ContentTemplate>
                        </asp:RoleGroup>
                         <asp:RoleGroup Roles="customer">
                         <ContentTemplate>
                        <asp:Menu ID="NavigationMenu" runat="server" CssClass="menu" EnableViewState="false"
                            IncludeStyleBlock="false" Orientation="Horizontal">
                            <Items>
                                        <asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/q.aspx" Text="Q" />
					<asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/r.aspx" Text="R" />
					<asp:MenuItem NavigateUrl="~/s.aspx" Text="S" />
                            </Items>
                        </asp:Menu>
                        </ContentTemplate>
                        </asp:RoleGroup>
                    </RoleGroups>
                </asp:LoginView>