Hi,

I can also see the writing on the wall for our own LMS. 

We use Roles to assign different folder/learning paths of content to different groups of Learners.  Why - because it is standard practice and "convenient" as Will so aptly puts it. We have the technology to support 'extended enterprise' deployments.  In LMS lingo this is where you have a central catalog of eLearning content on a 'master' portal for central content maintenance and utilization tracking and reporting.  The eLearning content is then distributed (and filtered) to any number (hundreds or thousands) of privately branded child portals. 

What will happen when major clients have hundreds of roles?  Do we tell them they will have to use JoomlaLMS?  Or will we have to refactor our application to use the DNN 'non-role' work around that Will is pouring his resources into?  I would then have to explain to my clients that they have to create custom completion events for all the third party modules for granting/selling the special DNN 'non-roles', just like we will have to tell them if they want to use AS.

The lack of a mature role handling mechanism is creating a cascading problem for people who have real business to achieve using a Web portal.  I'm not certain why DNN is a very distant 3rd to Drupal and Joomla, and loosing ground daily, but the lack of robust support for foundational things like role handling and localization aren't helping.

Before Will spends more time on a special DNN 'non-role' work around, please consider bitting the bullet, doing the right thing and increasing the number of roles DNN can handle.  This would have been so much simpler if you did it 5 years ago.  You'll say the same thing 5 years from now. 

Being able to handle hundreds of roles would be an *excellent*, and appropriate feature for the commercial DNN licenses.  It would only impact those clients whose utilization is really pushing the limits of the technology and should therefore pay more for the R&D.

I'll be a staunch supporter  for this decision in any discussion.

HTH

Chris

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Chris Wylie
Chief Executive Officer

1775 W. State Street Suite 371, Boise ID 83702 USA
 

I have a client with the requirement for a large number of roles as well.

It looks like we might need a role provider interface, which would allow creating solutions, which are supporting all use cases.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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Hi,

During yesterday's partner webinar Will Stohl mentioned that a number of people were requesting more roles and a solution to the cookie limitation. Any further news on this?

@Brandon - were you able to get your IP issues straightened out? I'm interested to know what you have to offer to the solution of this limitation.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Wylie
Chief Executive Officer

1775 W. State Street Suite 371, Boise ID 83702 USA