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yurikleban
Mentor
10 years ago

Target a user's role via freemarker

Hey folks,   Wanted to see if anyone ever implemented something similar:    We learned how to target anonymous users with the following syntax: <#if user.anonymous == true> User is anonymous. Di...
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ChiaraS
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
10 years ago

You can also use REST v2 for that:

 

<#function user_has_role (id, roles)>
  <#assign liql = "SELECT id FROM users WHERE roles.name IN (${roles}) and id = '${id}'" />
  <#assign query = rest("2.0","/search?q=" + liql?url) />
  <#if (query.status == "success") && query.data.size gt 0>
  	<#return true>
  <#else>
    <#return false>
  </#if>
</#function>

and call it like this:

<#if user.registered && user_has_role(user.id,"'Administrator', 'Lithium'")>
...
</#if>
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yurikleban
Mentor
10 years ago

 ChiaraS VarunGrazitti

 

Thank you both for the info! Going to try it out for our personalized experience and will report back.

 

Cheers,
Yuri K.