ASP.NET LoginView

Question

I am having problems using a LoginView for what I need. Can somebody tell me if I can do this in a LoginView (and how) or if I need to use code-behind.

I have two roles - Administrator and User. I want to dynamically display links based on the role. I will write out what I want in an if statement because it's easier to explain:

if (role = Administrator) //Display only if administrator.
   Show Hyperlink 1
   Show Hyperlink 2
else
   if (role = User) //Display only if user.
      Show Hyperlink 3
      Show Hyperlink 4
   endif
   //Display these if a user or if non-authenticated user...
   Show Hyperlink 5
   Show Hyperlink 6
   Show Hyperlink 7 
endif

Answer 1

The psuedo-code looks OK, what problem are you having? Can you post the actual code?

Answer 2

Try something like this it uses the RoleGroups property. You can also specify the RoleGroup for the user, but if you use the LoggedInTemplate it will take affect for all users logged in that don't have a Group in the RoleGroup. Finally, there isn't really a way to have a shared template like the scenario you described with Users/Anonymous, so you may have to duplicate. Another possiblity is that you don't include them in your LoginView and show them to the Administrators as well.

<asp:LoginView runat="server" ID="LoginView">
    <AnonymousTemplate>
        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link5" />
        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link6" />
        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link7" />
    </AnonymousTemplate>
    <LoggedInTemplate>
        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link3" />
        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link4" />
        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link5" />
        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link6" />
        <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link7" />
    </LoggedInTemplate>
    <RoleGroups>
        <asp:RoleGroup Roles="Administrator">
            <ContentTemplate>
                <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link1" />
                <asp:HyperLink runat="server" ID="Link2" />
            </ContentTemplate>
        </asp:RoleGroup>
    </RoleGroups>
</asp:LoginView>

Answer 3

You can certainly achieve what you're looking for with the ASP.NET LoginView control.

You'll want to look into the "RoleGroups" property of the LoginView control, as this allows you to create ContentTemplates that differ based upon the role that the authenticated user belongs to.

For Example:

<form id="form1" runat="server">
   <asp:LoginView id="LoginView1" runat="server">
      <RoleGroups>
         <asp:RoleGroup Roles="administrator">
            <ContentTemplate>
               <ul>
                  <li>Hyperlink 1</li>
                  <li>Hyperlink 2</li>
               </ul>
            </ContentTemplate>
         </asp:RoleGroup>
         <asp:RoleGroup Roles="user">
            <ContentTemplate>
               <ul>
                  <li>Hyperlink 3</li>
                  <li>Hyperlink 4</li>
               </ul>
            </ContentTemplate>
          </asp:RoleGroup>
      </RoleGroups>
      <AnonymousTemplate>
         <ul>
            <li>Hyperlink 5</li>
            <li>Hyperlink 6</li>
         </ul>
      </AnonymousTemplate>
   </asp:LoginView>
</form>

Using this mechanism allows you to define your content for each role purely declaratively in the ASP mark-up. Alternatively, you can always do this in server-side code, and can then show/hide any controls (that runat="server") depending upon any criteria you like. For example, as an alternative to the LoginView control, you could use the MultiView/View controls.