I need some help. I need to check to see if a user in in a role. This is not for the user currently viewing the page. I can get it to work with me.userinfo.IsInRole("Paid Member")

My code----------

Dim myUser As UserInfo
myUser = UserController.GetUser(PortalId, intuserid, True)

If myUser.IsInRole("Paid Member") Then
strtemp += "Current<br>"
End If

IsInRole is broken for any but the current active user - the Roles() array property that the IsInRole method uses internally is not being hydrated.

U need to use the RolesController methods to test if the user is in a role - am not at my dev box at the moment or I would put up some code..

Westa

As you found the Roles property of the UserInfo object only gets populated for the current user (and then not reliably it seems!). So, you can populate it in your own code then use the UserInfo method IsInRole as you intended. For a portal with many users, this should be much more efficient then iterating through the UserInfo objects returned by GetUsersByRoleName:

Dim rc As New DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController
myUser.Roles = rc.GetRolesByUser(myUser.UserId, PortalId)
If myUser.IsInRole("Paid Member") Then

End If

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