What is the difference between Member Groups and Member Types
I am trying to understand teh difference between Member Groups and Member Types...I have looked throught the documentation and I cannot seem to find anything about it....
Member groups = member roles (as in asp.net membership roles)
member types = member data (hierarchical structure defining data properties for a member)
For example: one may have a Person member type (holding properties such as name, age) and a bunch of derived member types which each define their own specific properties but all have name and age property inherited from the Person member type.
I'd like to know the answer to that as well, but the thing I most want to know is about that inheritance thing -- how does that happen? I have a member type "registered user", and I'd like to make another called "webmaster", but how do I get all the info from the registered user member type into the webmaster member type (along with properties defined just for the webmaster type, like URL of website, type of website, etc).
Also, is there any easy way to automatically promote the user to webmaster type based on answering "yes" to "Are you a webmaster?" or if they fill in the "URL" blank? Bear in mind, I am no programmer of any kind, and have been looking at/playing with ASP.NET for only about a month, so if making that sort of conditional requires actual programming on my part, then I wouldn't consider that an easy thing to do -- depending on how complex the code for it might be.
What is the difference between Member Groups and Member Types
I am trying to understand teh difference between Member Groups and Member Types...I have looked throught the documentation and I cannot seem to find anything about it....
Thanks
Hi Luis,
Member groups = member roles (as in asp.net membership roles)
member types = member data (hierarchical structure defining data properties for a member)
For example: one may have a Person member type (holding properties such as name, age) and a bunch of derived member types which each define their own specific properties but all have name and age property inherited from the Person member type.
Hope this helps clarifying a bit.
Cheers,
/Dirk
Thanks for your quick response, appreciate it! That clarifies a lot!,
Now what are the tabs for in the member types? Are they to be rendered in some sort of widget to edit the profile?
Thanks Again
Luis
Anyone?
I'd like to know the answer to that as well, but the thing I most want to know is about that inheritance thing -- how does that happen? I have a member type "registered user", and I'd like to make another called "webmaster", but how do I get all the info from the registered user member type into the webmaster member type (along with properties defined just for the webmaster type, like URL of website, type of website, etc).
Also, is there any easy way to automatically promote the user to webmaster type based on answering "yes" to "Are you a webmaster?" or if they fill in the "URL" blank? Bear in mind, I am no programmer of any kind, and have been looking at/playing with ASP.NET for only about a month, so if making that sort of conditional requires actual programming on my part, then I wouldn't consider that an easy thing to do -- depending on how complex the code for it might be.
Thx!
Andria
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