[Zope] Getting a specific user role

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Mabe, Brad wrote:

> Forgive me if this has been covered before.
> 
> I am implementing a login/security scheme through the use of GUF and SQL
> methods.  My user and role information is kept in a SQL database and a user
> can have more than one role assigned to him/her.
> 
> What I would like to do is check if a specific role has been assigned to the
> current user, and then display some additional menu items if that role has
> been assigned.  I haven't been able to figure out how to get and check the
> roles that have been assigned to the current user.
> 
> As usual, any help will be greatly appreciated.

(untested)

<dtml-if "'myrole' in AUTHENTICATED_USER.getRolesInContext(this())">
    User has the myrole role
</dtml-if>

getRoles is also there if you don't want to check for local roles.

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