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Quelyn
Genius
10 years ago

Question on "user_has_role"

Quick question.  When using the following:    <#if user_has_role == "customersupport" > Is there a away to list more than one role at a time here?  If so, what's the syntax?    Thanks!
  • rwm's avatar
    rwm
    10 years ago

    You can do the following to combine and/or logic:

     

     <#if user_has_roll?? && (user_has_role == "registered") || (user_has_role == "customer") >

     

     

  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    10 years ago

    Hi Quelyn

     

    you have an error in the expression. The first two conditions are put in AND (&&) and there is a typo in the first one  (user_has_roll), which means the first one will always fail.

     

    You actually need to write it like this for it to work (note the corrected typo and the wrapping parentheses) because the && (AND) always takes precedence onto || (OR) 

     

    <#if user_has_role?? && (user_has_role == "admin" || user_has_role == "partner" || user_has_role == "employee" || user_has_role =="customer") >

    Which means "if the variable user_has_role exists AND has one of the values in the brackets ..."

     

    Try this and let us know,

     

     

     

Quelyn's avatar
Quelyn
Genius

Ah ok, sorry I thought that folks who knew more than me would get where I was going, lol.  So I am building a custom navigation menu where we show users only the boards they have access to see.  Originally Lithium built this out for us, and we have the following to define the roles:

 

<!-- Roles for navigation menu-->
<#assign user_has_role = "none" /> 
   <#list restadmin("/users/id/${user.id?c}/roles").roles.role as role>
      <#if role.name?? && ((role.name == "Customer"))>
         <#assign user_has_role = "customer" />
         <#break />
       <#elseif role.name?? && ((role.name == "Registered User"))>
        <#assign user_has_role = "registered" /> 
      </#if>
   </#list>
<!-- Roles for navigation menu ends -->

So then, when I want to make the menu section for the user, it looks something like this:

<#if user_has_role == "registered" >
        <li><a class="chevron-before" href="t5/Kb-name/tkb-p/kb_name1">KB Example 1</a></li>
    <#elseif user_has_role == "customer" >
        <li><a class="chevron-before" href="t5/Kb-name/tkb-p/kb_name1">KB Example 1</a></li>
        <li><a class="chevron-before" href="t5/Kb-name2/tkb-p/kb_name2">KB Example 2</a></li>
</#if>

Now, I am aware I can combine the roles in the definitions to make one since they always see the same thing.  But sometimes, I have people that see the same thing, but only in that instance. 

 

So, I was looking for something like:

<#if user_has_role == "registered || customer" >

 That it would show both.  But the formatting on how to combine options there wasn't entirely intuitive to me, and I checked all the documentation I could but still didn't find anything :(

 

<#if user_has_role == "registered" >  <-- Would like if I could say "If you are registered OR customer" here you can see this option.
        <li><a class="chevron-before" href="t5/Kb-name/tkb-p/kb_name1">KB Example 1</a></li>
    <#elseif user_has_role == "customer" >
        <li><a class="chevron-before" href="t5/Kb-name/tkb-p/kb_name1">KB Example 1</a></li>
        <li><a class="chevron-before" href="t5/Kb-name2/tkb-p/kb_name2">KB Example 2</a></li>
</#if>

 

HOpe that makes sense, and thanks in advance.

rwm's avatar
rwm
Advisor
10 years ago

You can do the following to combine and/or logic:

 

 <#if user_has_roll?? && (user_has_role == "registered") || (user_has_role == "customer") >

 

 

  • Quelyn's avatar
    Quelyn
    Genius
    10 years ago

    Woohoo!  Thanks everyone!  :) Learning something new every day!

  • Quelyn's avatar
    Quelyn
    Genius
    10 years ago

    So, odd thing here.  When I use this code, it doesn't work for the first user defined in the role: 

    <#if user_has_roll?? && (user_has_role == "admin") || (user_has_role == "partner") || (user_has_role == "employee") || (user_has_role =="customer") >

    Whichever one I move to first place doesn't work. 

    • PaoloT's avatar
      PaoloT
      Lithium Alumni (Retired)
      10 years ago

      Hi Quelyn

       

      you have an error in the expression. The first two conditions are put in AND (&&) and there is a typo in the first one  (user_has_roll), which means the first one will always fail.

       

      You actually need to write it like this for it to work (note the corrected typo and the wrapping parentheses) because the && (AND) always takes precedence onto || (OR) 

       

      <#if user_has_role?? && (user_has_role == "admin" || user_has_role == "partner" || user_has_role == "employee" || user_has_role =="customer") >

      Which means "if the variable user_has_role exists AND has one of the values in the brackets ..."

       

      Try this and let us know,

       

       

       

      • Quelyn's avatar
        Quelyn
        Genius
        10 years ago
        Gak! I can't believe I didn't catch that. Sometimes when you stare at something too long you can't even see anything anymore. Thank you so much, once again, for your help!