I am validating the users of my web app against a user database in SQL 
Server.  I then store the user object in a session variable and pass it 
around to the various forms.  I have a field in the user object called Role 
that either holds the value "BusinessAgent" or "Administrator".  The role 
type determines what forms the user can access and certain privileges in 
forms.  I have menus on a master page but I don't want to hide menu items 
depending on the role type.  I would like to in the page load of each form, 
look at the role type and determine whether they have permission to the form 
otherwise alert them to the fact that the form is for administrators only. 
What is the best way to do this?

Bill

On Aug 4, 7:46 am, "Bill Gower"  wrote:

> I am validating the users of my web app against a user database in SQL
> Server.  I then store the user object in a session variable and pass it
> around to the various forms.  I have a field in the user object called Role
> that either holds the value "BusinessAgent" or "Administrator".  The role
> type determines what forms the user can access and certain privileges in
> forms.  I have menus on a master page but I don't want to hide menu items
> depending on the role type.  I would like to in the page load of each form,
> look at the role type and determine whether they have permission to the form
> otherwise alert them to the fact that the form is for administrators only.
> What is the best way to do this?
>


Hi Bill

you can check it in the code-behind

If Not User.IsInRole("Administrator") Then
Response.Write("Only administrators can see this form")
End If

you can set permissions in web.config

<location path="admin.aspx">
        <system.web>
            <authorization>
                <allow roles="Administrator" />
                <deny users="*" />
            </authorization>
        </system.web>
    </location>

Hope this helps

On Aug 4, 10:14 am, Alexey Smirnov  wrote:

> On Aug 4, 7:46 am, "Bill Gower"  wrote:
>
> > I am validating the users of my web app against a user database in SQL
> > Server.  I then store the user object in a session variable and pass it
> > around to the various forms.  I have a field in the user object called Role
> > that either holds the value "BusinessAgent" or "Administrator".  The role
> > type determines what forms the user can access and certain privileges in
> > forms.  I have menus on a master page but I don't want to hide menu items
> > depending on the role type.  I would like to in the page load of each form,
> > look at the role type and determine whether they have permission to the form
> > otherwise alert them to the fact that the form is for administrators only.
> > What is the best way to do this?
>
> Hi Bill
>
> you can check it in the code-behind
>
> If Not User.IsInRole("Administrator") Then
> Response.Write("Only administrators can see this form")
> End If
>
> you can set permissions in web.config
>
> <location path="admin.aspx">
>         <system.web>
>             <authorization>
>                 <allow roles="Administrator" />
>                 <deny users="*" />
>             </authorization>
>         </system.web>
>     </location>
>
> Hope this helps


P.S. I assume that you created a FormsAuthenticationTicket with roles
and assigned it the user