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7 years ago

Conditional based on rank

I'm trying to have a sub-nav with line items dependent on whether a user has the rank of administrator. I've evaluated a LiQL query that evaluates correctly on the homepage, but when you navigate to ...
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    jcracraft
    7 years ago

    I found my own solution. Apparently it matters where you put the <#attempt> The LiQL query needs to be before<#attempt>. This was my solution in case anybody else has the same issue.

    <#--  LiQL query for active user  -->
  <#assign adminRole = 't:Administrator' />
  <#assign userSearch= user.id />
  <#assign queryRole= "SELECT id FROM roles WHERE users.id='${userSearch}'" />
  <#assign queryData= rest("2.0","/search?q=" + queryRole?url) />
  <#assign queryResult = queryData.data.items[0].id />

  <#attempt>
    <#if queryResult == adminRole >
      <#-- Adding blog to secondary nav if user is administrator   -->
      <#assign navItems = [blog, groups, training, events, faq] />
    </#if>
    <#recover>
      <#assign navItems = [groups, training, events, faq] />
  </#attempt>
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jcracraft
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Thank you for improving my syntax Parshant, my LiQL query now works on all the pages.

Unfortunately, my if statement seems to be a problem. It's still evaluating false anywhere but the Homepage. I even changed the condition to something that would evaluate to true and it's still not working on any other page: 

<#if 1 == 1>
    <#assign navItems = [blog, groups, training, events, faq] />
  </#if>
  <#recover>
    <#assign navItems = [groups, training, events, faq] />
</#attempt>

Even with this i'm not getting the blog on any page but the homepage.

jcracraft's avatar
jcracraft
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7 years ago

I found my own solution. Apparently it matters where you put the <#attempt> The LiQL query needs to be before<#attempt>. This was my solution in case anybody else has the same issue.

<#--  LiQL query for active user  -->
  <#assign adminRole = 't:Administrator' />
  <#assign userSearch= user.id />
  <#assign queryRole= "SELECT id FROM roles WHERE users.id='${userSearch}'" />
  <#assign queryData= rest("2.0","/search?q=" + queryRole?url) />
  <#assign queryResult = queryData.data.items[0].id />

  <#attempt>
    <#if queryResult == adminRole >
      <#-- Adding blog to secondary nav if user is administrator   -->
      <#assign navItems = [blog, groups, training, events, faq] />
    </#if>
    <#recover>
      <#assign navItems = [groups, training, events, faq] />
  </#attempt>