IsUserInRole problem/issue 2

[johk02]

Hi,
I am bit confused here - how come that this works
<cfif IsUserInRole("Level1") OR IsUserInRole("Level2")>
but this IsUserInRole("Level1,Level2") doesn't work??

Thanks
Jonas

 

[TruthInSatire]

because the function IsUserInRole is looking for one value. to make it easy, that's the way MM programmed the function to work. Could they have written it to accept a list and parse the list? yep, but they didn't. you can request they do so on the MM website. faq232-5731

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[ecobb]

Actually, that's not entirely accurate. According to LiveDocs, you can have a list as long as there are no spaces in it. The catch is, the user must be in BOTH roles.

To check if a user is in multiple roles, specify them in a comma delimited list, such as "Admin,HR". Lists with multiple roles cannot contain spaces as separators; for example, do not use "Admin, HR".

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funct142.htm#wp4047189

Hope This Helps!

ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC

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[TruthInSatire]

Doh! My bad.

So i guess my corrected answer would be
the list doesn't work because it's the same as
<cfif IsUserInRole("Level1") AND IsUserInRole("Level2")>
not
<cfif IsUserInRole("Level1") OR IsUserInRole("Level2")>


Thanks Ecar.


We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

 

[johk02]

I had missed the catch ie that a user had to be a member of BOTH roles. I pressumed that that the user could be a member of just one of the roles.

Thanks Ecar

Jonas

 

[johk02]

I am not to sure if that is the case that a user have to be a member of all roles. In the application.cfm I have this code - it's getting a list of all roles to verify that someone is logged in under correct role before it process the code otherwise they get transfered to another page.
####################
<cfquery name="RS_GetAllUserLevels" datasource="#request.SiteDSN#">
SELECT tbl_usergroup.userGroup FROM tbl_usergroup
</cfquery>

<cfset request.AdminAL = Valuelist(RS_GetAllUserLevels.userGroup)>
<cfif isuserinrole("#request.AdminAL#")>
####################

And I have just assigned 1 role per user.

Jonas