Hello all,

I want to change the "Expiry Date" of a Security Role of an user. How would I update (or change) it in a code-behind file? To further explain the problem, I like to utilize the Security Role feature to control the users' access to a certain module (or page). You can think this as a subscription based access control to a module (or page). I like to update the user's Expiry Date based on a certain condition (or event firing).

I am aware of UserInfo (DNN class) but I cannot find a way to update (or change) the Expiry Date of a particular Security Role. 

Thank you.

Woogon Chung

Roles in DNN are not a part of UserInfo they are managed separately by the roles controller entity.

For example - to add a user to a new role and set and expiry date of 31 January 2012:

DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController rc = new DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController();

DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleInfo someRole = rc.GetRoleByName(PortalId, "Some Role");

DateTime expiryDate = new DateTime(2012,1,31)'

rc.AddUserRole(thisPortalId, someuser.UserId, someRole.RoleID, expiryDate  );Ne

Next there is a way to have the system automatically update a role to a new date if the parent role has a billing period defined.

If for example the role Some Role has a period of 1 Month defined in Admin - the following would cause the expiry date of a userinfo someuser to be incremented by a1 Month.

DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController rc = new DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController();

DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleInfo someRole = rc.GetRoleByName(PortalId, "Some Role"); 

rc.UpdateUserRole(PortalID, someuser.UserId , someRole.RoleID );

Alternatively, if you want to be able to control the exact date the expiry date is updated to without having to rely on the period defined for the role - I tend to perform 2 steps - delete the current role and add a new one.

DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleInfo someRole = rc.GetRoleByName(PortalId, "Some Role");
 
rc.DeleteUserRole(PortalId, someuser.UserId , someRole.RoleID);

DateTime expiryDate = new DateTime(2012,1,31)'

rc.AddUserRole(thisPortalId, someuser.UserId, someRole.RoleID, expiryDate  ); 

NOTE - you can also do this in one step - bu JUST calling the rc.AddUser without calling the rc.DeleteUser - cant recall why we used to do the delete and add - think it was about event reporting.  If you call rc.AddUser and event already exists - it will just update the expiry date.

I would also suggest you wrap the Deleteuser / Adduser calls in try/catch since if the role does not exist or already exists you may get an exception error.

One last thing also - make sure once you finish any role manipulation that you clear the system caches.

DotNetNuke.Security.PortalSecurity.ClearRoles();

DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities.DataCache.ClearUserCache(PortalId, someUser.Username);

Westa

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