Okay this is a bit of a design flaw on my part but now I need to overcome it and dont have a good idea on what way to go

I need to query part of the user profile when the user is logged in and determine if a tab should be visible or not

I was thinking I would create a new implementation of the solpart menu that would do this (so i dont have to touch the core) has anybody maybe had to do something like this ?

Other Ideas?

yeah thats what i thought at first - here the delemia as it exists - the web site is actually a collection of apps - all were or are in classic ASP and are being moved to .NET using DNN as the application platform to handle roles and all that stuff - cool huh!

anyway while we are using the roles very extensivly it doesnt work in this instance - corporations can come in and buy access to all some or one of the applications - now roles are already being used to handle reporting and other tasks and having all the possible combinations of what products a company has for its users would be a night mare - doing it that way i counted over 50 roles would be needed

so what i thought i would do is tap the user profile to find the company a user in in then query my table of applications linked to the company table to find what applications and admin functions they should have access to - and only show those tabs/pages - now i could do it in the module but that seems like it would be worse since they would have a lot of pages (potentailly) that would just be blank

What i was thinking was a new navigation provider - i was looking at the solpart naviagtion provider and it looks like i should be able to handle this in the override bind sub of a new provider - but maybe some one could tell me if that would be the best place

yes i am aware of that and the modules that make up the applications act as a second level of this my not showing the anything but a message about buy the application

my thing is being the control freek i am i want to just go ahead and hide those tabs so it looks cleaner