Hi

I am  building a user login module.  As part of the login procedure, I want to interrogate the roles that the user may be part of (using user.IsInRole("xx"))  My problem is that after calling ValidateUser, the Roles collection is not populated and infact upon test, is equal to Nothing. 

Any suggestions greatfully received.

Regards

Stuart McKenzie

 

Try UserInfo.IsInRole("RoleName")

You get the controller for free now.  UserInfo.xxx is all you need.

 

UserInfo.IsInRole("xx") will work in most cases, such as in the typical module development for the currently authenticated user as the UserInfo object is pulled from the current HttpContext with a properly populated Roles array.  It does not work in special cases such as in the OP's case of calling ValidateUser or my case in using DNN's UserLogin in a webservice.  The various GetUser(s).. methods and in particular the GetUserByName methods do not populate the Roles array of the returned UserInfo object causing the IsInRole method to always return false.  I've also run into this problem in module code that enumerates a subset of users to locate those in a particular role.

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