Hi,

What I want is to have a page use a different master page dependant on their user role. There are two buttons that should be available only to users in the "Administrator" group and not those in the "Members" group (the only two groups I have). My buttons are defined the master pages and their graphics provided using CSS, so the simplest way of acheiving what I want that I could see was having the page use the MembersMasterPage.Master if they are a Member or the AdminMasterPage.master if they are an Admin.

First of all is this possible, if so how do I go about it?

Much Appreciated

I think you would be better off with one master page, not two, for the situation you describe.

Just have the master page check the user's group and disable/hide the relevant buttons!
 

Personally I would just use code on a single master page to determine what buttons are available based on the users roles.

Could someone let me know how I would go abour witing that as a procedure so that:

 If Roles.IsUserInRole("Administrator") Then

elseif Roles.IsUserInRole("Member")  Then

<div id="mainmenu"><ul> <li><a href="AddRecords.aspx">Add Quotes</a></li><li><a href="NewProducts.aspx">New Products</a></li></ul></div>

else

endif

A procedure which basically does that but that will work.

Here is a very basic example

<%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master" Title="Untitled Page" %>

<script runat="server">

If User.IsInRole("Administrator") Then

AddQuotes.Visible = True

ViewQuote.Visible = True

UploadNewProducts.Visible = True

NewProducts.Visible = True

Else

AddQuotes.Visible = True

ViewQuote.Visible = False

UploadNewProducts.Visible = False

NewProducts.Visible = True

End If

</script>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" Runat="Server">

<asp:HyperLink ID="AddQuotes" runat="server" NavigateUrl="">HyperLink</asp:HyperLink><br />

<asp:HyperLink ID="ViewQuote" runat="server" NavigateUrl="">HyperLink</asp:HyperLink><br />

<asp:HyperLink ID="UploadNewProducts" runat="server" NavigateUrl="">HyperLink</asp:HyperLink><br />

</asp:Content>

Too many ways to do it. If you have design the menu for each role, try my code

If Roles.IsUserInRole("Administrator") Then
   mainmenuAdmin.visible=true
   mainmenuMember.visible=false

elseif Roles.IsUserInRole("Member")  Then
   mainmenuAdmin.visible=false
   mainmenuMember.visible=true
else

endif

<div id="mainmenuAdmin" runat="server"><ul> <li><a href="../AddRecords.aspx">Add Quotes</a></li> <li><a href="ViewQuote.aspx">View Quote</a></li><li><a href="Upload.aspx">Upload New Products</a></li><li><a href="../NewProducts.aspx">New Products</a></li></ul></div>
<div id="mainmenuMember" runat="server" visible="false"><ul> <li><a href="AddRecords.aspx">Add Quotes</a></li><li><a href="NewProducts.aspx">New Products</a></li></ul></div>