[Zope] Detecting Roles not working

[Kapil Thangavelu]

Jonathan Cheyne wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have built the basis of a site with full, form-based webediting of
> objects. Coming round to cleanup time and I wanted to remove certain
> visible functions from the default object views unless you have already
> logged in (with various possible roles)
> 
> in the index_html of my zclass i have
> 
> <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Staff')">
> <a href="<dtml-var absolute_url>/<dtml-var type>edit">edit this</a><hr>
> </dtml-if>
> so if the user is anonymous or logged in without the Staff role assigne
> they should not see the "edit this" link ...
> 
> Doesn't work! It basically never returns a 'true' response thus never
> displays the edit this link even when logged in.



try (untested)

<dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Staff')==1"

or (tested)

<dtml-if "'Staff' in AUTHENTICATED_USER.getRoles()">


Cheers

Kapil