I have customers that are companies, not individuals. How should I tie individual users to their respective organizations? I was thinking of adding a RoleGroup called customers, and then a role for each corporate customer and then add the users to that role. Or is it best to try and do this through the user profile?

The customer (aka organization) defines what the user can see and is a key value in many reports, so it has to be available in some way to the modules..

Links / docs / responses are all very welcome..

If you go with a role per customer, you can actually use DNN core methods to find the users in the roles without building any separate lookup tables.

If you need I can show you the code for that type of setup, I have done that type of user lookup in my Course Gradebook module..

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To get a list of the users in the role you can use the following, I am showing direclty binding to a drop down list, but you can do as you desire with the collection.

DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController oRoleController = new DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController();
cboStudentSelection.DataSource = oRoleController.GetUserRolesByRoleName(PortalId, oSettings.StudentRole);
cboStudentSelection.DataValueField = "UserId";
cboStudentSelection.DataTextField = "FullName";
cboStudentSelection.DataBind();

That is a C# example, but I am sure if you are a VB user that it will make sense to you as well.

 

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-Mitchel Sellers
Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, DNN MVP
CEO/Director of Development - IowaComputerGurus Inc.


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