Help with Freemarker & Menu Permissions

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Hello! &nbsp;We have a menu to browse the sections of the community that different roles have access to. &nbsp;The way I have this setup is using if and elseif commands. &nbsp;&lt;li class=""&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forums/ct-p/forums"&gt;Forums&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul class="menu menu-flash-array"&gt;
&lt;!-- Registered User Forum Menu --&gt; 
    &lt;#if user_has_role == "reguser" &gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1"&gt;Forum 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;!-- Customer Forum Menu --&gt;
    &lt;#elseif user_has_role == "customer" &gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1"&gt;Forum 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum2/bd-p/forum2"&gt;Forum 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum3/bd-p/forum3"&gt;Forum 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;!-- Partner Forum Menu --&gt;
	&lt;#elseif user_has_role == "partner" &gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1"&gt;Forum 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum2/bd-p/forum2"&gt;Forum 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum3/bd-p/forum3"&gt;Forum 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum4/bd-p/forum4"&gt;Forum 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;!-- Employee Forum Menu --&gt;
	&lt;#elseif user_has_role == "employee" &gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1"&gt;Forum 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum2/bd-p/forum2"&gt;Forum 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum3/bd-p/forum3"&gt;Forum 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum4/bd-p/forum4"&gt;Forum 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum5/bd-p/forum5"&gt;Forum 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;!-- Support Forum Menu --&gt;
	&lt;#elseif user_has_role?? &amp;&amp; (user_has_role == "support" || user_has_role == "admin") &gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1"&gt;Forum 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum2/bd-p/forum2"&gt;Forum 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum3/bd-p/forum3"&gt;Forum 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum4/bd-p/forum4"&gt;Forum 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum5/bd-p/forum5"&gt;Forum 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum6/bd-p/forum6"&gt;Forum 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/#if&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;What is happening is that we have some users with two roles. &nbsp;Employee AND Support. &nbsp;So, when they get to the point in the code where it assigns them "employee", it stops looking further and they see those menu items only. &nbsp;&nbsp;I use Support as a role that's for access only, and they get their baseline defaults from Employee. &nbsp;This is the only place where this causes an issue. &nbsp;Is there a way to fix this in the freemarker code?&nbsp;&nbsp;Any assistance is greatly appreciated!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

oliviers · Answer

Quelyn&nbsp;maybe something like:
&nbsp;
&lt;!-- Employee Forum Menu --&gt;
	&lt;#elseif user_has_role == "employee" &gt;
          &lt;#if user_has_role == "support"&gt;
&lt;!-- user has employee and support role --&gt;
&lt;!-- display what you want to display --&gt;
           &lt;#elseif&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1"&gt;Forum 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum2/bd-p/forum2"&gt;Forum 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum3/bd-p/forum3"&gt;Forum 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum4/bd-p/forum4"&gt;Forum 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum5/bd-p/forum5"&gt;Forum 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;         &lt;#/if&gt;
&lt;!-- Support Forum Menu --&gt;
	&lt;#elseif user_has_role?? &amp;&amp; (user_has_role == "support" || user_has_role == "admin") &gt;
          &lt;#if user_has_role == "employee"&gt;
&lt;!-- user has employee and support role --&gt;
&lt;!-- display what you want to display --&gt;
&lt;!-- note: not sure this condition is necessary --&gt;
           &lt;#elseif&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum1/bd-p/forum1"&gt;Forum 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum2/bd-p/forum2"&gt;Forum 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum3/bd-p/forum3"&gt;Forum 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum4/bd-p/forum4"&gt;Forum 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum5/bd-p/forum5"&gt;Forum 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/t5/Forum6/bd-p/forum6"&gt;Forum 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;#/if&gt;

quelyn · Answer

Trying this and getting an error:&nbsp;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.&nbsp;I'll try variations on this... Definitely seems closer. &nbsp;The elseif in the middle needs to be "else", but that still doens't work. &nbsp;Back to the drawing board :)

oliviers · Answer

Quelyn&nbsp;correct ... bothe elseif should be else ... I just wrote the code like that to show the logic ... it might be full of errors!

oliviers · Answer

Quelyn&nbsp;I thin k the apporach is not the best here ... you should build your menu based on the role(s) the user have ...
&nbsp;
First, you set up a 'menu' string:&nbsp;
&lt;#assign my_li=''&gt;
Then you build your menu string depending on the role(s):
&nbsp;
if user has role admin then my_li += '&lt;li&gt;admin link&lt;/li&gt;'
if user has role employees then my_li += '&lt;li&gt;employee link&lt;/li&gt;'
Sorry, it's just the theory, not hte actual freemarker code ... but that's a much better approach I think ...

quelyn · Answer

OlivierS&nbsp;Well, I *thought* that's what I was doing! &nbsp;But the problem comes into play because the way we are setup some users have more than one role. &nbsp;And that's when things don't really work. &nbsp;&nbsp;But we define all the roles, and we say, "If someone is Employee, they see this menu", and "If someone is Support they see this OTHER menu". &nbsp;But the people who are support have both the Employee and Support roles, for access to KB / Forums. &nbsp;&nbsp;So, that's the use case that is having the problem.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ideally we would like a menu that is dynamic like the "Community Browser" but customizable.

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