Help with Freemarker & Menu Permissions
Hello! We have a menu to browse the sections of the community that different roles have access to. The way I have this setup is using if and elseif commands. <li class=""><a href="/t5/Forums/ct-...
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Quelyn maybe something like:
<!-- Employee Forum Menu -->
<#elseif user_has_role == "employee" >
<#if user_has_role == "support">
<!-- user has employee and support role -->
<!-- display what you want to display -->
<#elseif>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1">Forum 1</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum2/bd-p/forum2">Forum 2</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum3/bd-p/forum3">Forum 3</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum4/bd-p/forum4">Forum 4</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum5/bd-p/forum5">Forum 5</a></li>
<#/if>
<!-- Support Forum Menu -->
<#elseif user_has_role?? && (user_has_role == "support" || user_has_role == "admin") >
<#if user_has_role == "employee">
<!-- user has employee and support role -->
<!-- display what you want to display -->
<!-- note: not sure this condition is necessary -->
<#elseif>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1">Forum 1</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum2/bd-p/forum2">Forum 2</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum3/bd-p/forum3">Forum 3</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum4/bd-p/forum4">Forum 4</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum5/bd-p/forum5">Forum 5</a></li>
<li><a href="/t5/Forum6/bd-p/forum6">Forum 6</a></li>
<#/if>
Trying this and getting an error:
Freemarker template 'ContentWrapper' parsing failed:
ParseException:Parsing error in template "ContentWrapper" in line 102, column 18: Unknown directive: #elseif. Help (latest version): http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_directive_alphaidx.html; you're using FreeMarker 2.3.20.
I'll try variations on this... Definitely seems closer. The elseif in the middle needs to be "else", but that still doens't work. Back to the drawing board :)
Quelyn correct ... bothe elseif should be else ... I just wrote the code like that to show the logic ... it might be full of errors!
Quelyn I thin k the apporach is not the best here ... you should build your menu based on the role(s) the user have ...
First, you set up a 'menu' string:
<#assign my_li=''>
Then you build your menu string depending on the role(s):
if user has role admin then my_li += '<li>admin link</li>'
if user has role employees then my_li += '<li>employee link</li>'
Sorry, it's just the theory, not hte actual freemarker code ... but that's a much better approach I think ...
