Craig,

If the page exists in the content tree then you can create the link with zLinkText.NiceUrl

so the full thing would be:

txtLoggedIn.Text+="<a href=\""+zLinkText.NiceUrl+"\">"+ zLinkText.Name+"</a>"+"<br/>";

Hi Richard,

ZlinkText is just a string though......it doesn't currently relate to a document. I need to relate it to a document and that's what I'm unsure of how to do in UserControl.

Thanks,

Craig

Sorry I thought zLinkText was your node.

Ok you'll have to include some additional logic to ensure it's related but I'd do:

var startNode = new Node(1201); //the node id for the start node

var childNodes = startNode.Children;

foreach(var node in childNodes)

{

<a href=\"" + node.NiceUrl + "\" title=\"" + node.Name + "\"/>" + node.Name + </a>";

}

You'll have to add some logic in to ensure that the user has access to the link you're displaying of course but this is just a way you can get the nodes.

Instead of having the node id you can always register the node in web.config and then call it like

var startNode = Convert.ToInt32(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["whateverName"]));

Hi again Richard (and thanks for your help again!),

I haven't got the option to create 'new Node(1201)' (Intellisense isn't giving me anything to do with nodes) so I presume that I'm missing a namespace reference somewhere. I'm using

using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member;

To open up the Member Class but I don't know which one relates to the actual content of the site! All in all I don't know a lot!

Thanks for your patience!

Craig

You know that 1201 is the node of your parent/start node right?

Using Umbraco.NodeFactory is what you need to get that. A tip in VIsual Studio if you get the squiggly red underline, click on it and then press Ctrl+. (as in the dot character), this will bring up a list of available namespaces

Regarding showing which groups a user is a member of I'm not sure there is anything available in the API for that, so you may have to write a stored procedure for that.

The two database tables involved are cmsMember which shows the members and the member id and also cmsMember2MemberGroup whichshows which group(s) that member is related to.

It wouldn't take much to pull that information back in a stored procedure and display it. 

But I'm wondering what your link is actually for since the member group isn't a node in the content tree. 

Hi Richard,

What I've got is list of Member Groups and in the content of the site there 'pages' (for want of a better term) that are named the same as the Member Groups. ie. There's a Member Group called MyWebsitesSecureUser there somewhere in the content tree there's a page called MyWebsitesSecureUser.aspx. When a member logs in I'm getting all of the member groups that they are a member of displaying them on screen. But what I'm actually trying to do is create a clickable link so the logged in user not only see's the groups that they belong but they can click the link and be taken to the relevant page.

So while I know that somewhere in the content tree there's a document called MyWebsitesSecureUser.aspx I don't know what it's URL is (because it could exist at any level in the tree) so I need to find the page in the tree and then pull it's URL back and create the link.

I was sorta hoping that there'd be something like GetNodeByName(zMyPageName) in much the same way as I get the Member roles by the GetRolesForUser function....

Thanks again :)

Will this pull back the groups that each member is in?

If so then Lee's way is much better :)

Damn you Lee - you evil genius! :D

Absolute legends!!!!

Final bit of code......

            string[] roles = Roles.GetRolesForUser(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name);
            string zLinkText;
            for (int i =0; i < roles.Length; i++)
            {
                if (roles[i] != "Standard")
                {
                    zLinkText =  roles[i].Replace(" ", "");//Remove all spaces from the member role to create the link
                    Node zNode = umbraco.uQuery.GetNodesByName(zLinkText).FirstOrDefault();

                    if (zNode != null)
                    {
                        txtLoggedIn.Text += "<a href=\"" + zNode.Url + ".aspx\">" + roles[i] + "</a>" + "<br/>";                         
                    }

                }
            }

Thanks again. Wonderful.

Craig

Nice one

Good to know uQuery can be used in that way - will be handy in future!

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