Change Page based on user

PerBonomi - Could you elaborate "more"? :)

Why did I now you'd be the first reply? ;)

Sure can!

I want to replace the main community page, the front page. But, I want to test it on a few users first. I can't,however, seem to use Freemarker to change the Page, based on something like role.

PerBonomi have look at this thread and see if it helps. looks like the same request, but for a different page.

Hahaha :) 

I am not sure if we could change the quilt of a page dynamically, but you mentioned that page initialization will let you change the quilt, thats great. You can add the code which triggers this action in the page initialization tab itself, what is stopping you?

Code to check the access/ role for the users could be something like this:

Create a macro to check the user roles, named access.check.macro

<#assign change_quilt = false />
<#attempt>
	<#list restadmin("/users/id/${user.id?c}/roles").roles.role as role>  <#-- REST call to get the user's roles -->
		<#if role.name?? && (role.name == "REQUIRED_ROLE_1") || role.name?? && (role.name == "REQUIRED_ROLE_2") >        
			<#assign change_quilt = true />
		</#if>
	</#list>
<#recover>
	<#assign change_quilt = false />
</#attempt>	

In the page initialization tab, you could add your code as:

<#include "access.check.macro.ftl"> // include the macro in the page initialization tab, so the users role is checked on the page load.
<#if user.registered> 
	<#if change_quilt>
		<#if page.name == "CommunityPage" && http.request.url?index_of("/t5/") lt 0>
			//Display the other quilt
		</#if>		
	</#if>
</#if>

I hope this helps.

I was referring to this page.

Issue I have is that I want to replace the Page, not the Quilt. Maybe they're interchangeable; still can't entirely wrap my brian around quilts, layouts and pages..

If the original Page type is Community Page, what's the name of the quilt?

Yeah, I think I see what you're going for, but that will only change the layout; not switch to a custom page.

No worries, it was worth a shot :)

True, I'll try that.

Thanks for the help :)

Hey. So, it turns out the code does work; there's just some glitch with our Staging environment.

So, in case someone wants to try, you can replace any page on the fly:

<#if !user.anonymous && page.name == "CommunityPage">
 <#if user.login = "<your name>">
 ${http.response.replaceQuilt("CommunityPage","CommunityPage.Music")}
 </#if>
</#if>