Hello!

I'm wondering if it's possible to extend the capabilities of Security Roles, within a Module? I'd like to add custom fields to Security Roles.

Is this possible, and if so are there any helpful guides?

I apologize if this is in the wrong place, this is my first post.

Thank you!
Preston

Have a look at the DotNetNuke.Security.Permissions.ModulePermissionCollection - pretty sure thats the right path

Don't have time to dig up the code at the moment - but what it lets you do is create custom permissions for a specific module.

Once a collection is defined for a custom module - the permissions tab on the module settings page will add that custom permission as a column.
You can then assign roles to that permission and test for them being set in your module.

ModulePermissionController.HasModulePermission(this.ModuleConfiguration.ModulePermissions, "SOME MODULE ACTION");

Is this the sort of thing you are looking for ?

Westa

this is not possible. Role groups are only intended for organizatonal purposes, primarily to reduce the number of roles shown at once on page/module settings screen. Whilst you can certainly detect if a role is in a rolegroup and perform logic on it, we do not support putting the same role in multiple role groups as they need to have one unique parent to generate the correct lists. Unfortunately roleinfo does not inherit from contenttype so you also can't add custom metadata. You could solve you problem by substituting custom permissions instead of roles, but my suspicion is that you would be better suited by introducing your own table(s) to store content to role lookups.

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