I dont know ActiveSocial well so can't talk to your first question, but as for the 2nd we are aware of the issue but currently have no plans to change our portalroles mechanism - there was discussion some time back and a proposed solution that allowed for a larger number of roles (a few hundred as far as I remember) but it was deemed as being a low priority task as it effects a very small number of users (mostly users using roles where user permissions were the correct option) - and users using AD can choose to not enable role syncronisation and manually control role membership. I'm sorry this isnt a good answer for your customer but it's a non-trivial amount of developer hours and we have limited resources - of course if someone came up with an alternative solution and was willing to contribute it I'm sure we'd be happy to evaluate it.

Thanks,
Cathal

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Hi Folks,

Thank you very much for the prompt responses! 

You are correct - I did receive a few replies, but they were never clear about the road ahead.  Yes, you did mention a scheduler, but as I replied I need the assignment to be immediate and not dependent on a scheduler.  We sell an LMS that provides role based access to eLearning content and different AS groups can be part of a learning path.  Clients are using many other third party modules to grant, or sell roles to grant access to our LMS eLearning content and there is no way I can enforce a "completion" event in all the different modules to run the scheduler.

> Active Social doesn't support role based security due to limits on the number of roles to which a user can belong.
> We are aware of the issues that arise when a user belongs to a large number of roles. We are working to address this situation as part of the Active Social integration.

Again, I am having trouble reading between the lines.  If you are "working to address" the "issues that arise when a user belongs to a large number of roles" as "part of the Active Social integration", does this mean that the "limits on the number of roles to which a user can belong" will be addressed and thereby allow AS to support role based security?  If it doesn't mean this, what does it mean?

I'm sorry to be so dense, but we have major clients like the Government of Quebec and Brother International that have been asking for a definitive reply - for a long time.  For now they are only implementing ActiveForums (since it supports role based security).

Thanks,
Chris

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