Hello All,

I am coming up with a strategy for user security and was wondering if it is possible to assign Security Roles as members or children of other Security Roles so as to make a multi-leveled hierarchy of security.

For example: Have an Employees Role under Global Roles and then departmental Roles that are all part of the Employees Role such as Engineering, Humanities, etc..

The idea would be able to add a User to the Engineering Role and have them automatically be a member of the Employees Role.

I am not seeing a way to do it with the Control Panel. Anyone know if I am missing something or if there is a way to do it programatically? If it can be done programatically, would this be supported?

Thanks.

I investigated the options for implementing hierarchical roles (and inheriting permissions from parent folder/page). It wouldn't really be a fundamental change, however, when I posed the questions about the benefit in DNN Connect, there was no response, i.e. I don't see a chance to get it implemented (unless here is a request from a paying Evoq client).

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Sebastian Leupold

   

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I agree that hierarchical roles would reduce number of role assignments, as a user don't nee to be assigned to common roles and detailed roles.
However, this doesn't seem to be a big problem for most DNN admins, many sites don't seem have additional grouping roles (besides Registered Role group, which gets assigned automatically). It might be a bigger issue for Sites with AD connected.
Implementation wouldn't be too difficult and might be handled mainly in the data layer (same applies for inherited permission for Tabs and Folders)

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Sebastian Leupold

   

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