DotNetNuke: Conditional logic for displaying menu items

Question

Hi guys!

I am new to DotNetNuke, but I'm an experienced web admin and programmer.

I have an ASP .NET website / web application that I want to integrate into DNN 5 so I can easily add / modify content, etc. My existing site uses it's own login system to display user information. I have successfully placed (using iframes) all of my existing pages inside DNN pages.

The problem I am having is that I need to conditionally hide certain pages in the menu until a user is logged into my application. To be clear, my users are logging in using my existing authentication system, and will not actually login to DNN, so I can't simply grant permissions to those pages.

My question is this: is there some way (perhaps by modifying the DNN code) to conditionally hide menu items until certain requirements are met, such as authentication through my login system?

Thanks! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You can write your own DNN Authentication module that leverages your current system and code.

Our shop uses DNN, but hands off authentication to our university's centralized authentication system. I didn't write it, but I don't get the impression that it was too hard. Now when we create a portal, we install and enable our authentication module and then turn off DNN Authentication. Works like a charm.

Answer 2

We used DNN Garden menu for this (we do some thing sort of like that) the menu has a Node manipulator interface you can code against

http://www.dnngarden.com/

http://www.dnngarden.com/Menu-structure-manipulation.T104.aspx

• we have had great success with this -

The other option which we have done as well is to write your own menu provider - not really that hard