[Zope] Detecting Roles not working

[Peter Bengtsson]

Stolen somewhere from this list, and I don't remember from who.

<dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_permission('Edit', this())">

...is cool to have as well if you ever need it.
Let's you not use specific names of ACL's such as "Staff" or "CopyWriter".



> <dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('Staff', this())">
> 
> This works for me, no pun intended :)
> 
> Dan
> 
> Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
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