Saturday, July 26, 2014

Do you really need role base pages in dotnetnuke?

Introduction & Background

I have experience working on an existing dnn site that has lots of custom features and I join the team to contribute as developer, lead or code reviewer. Many times during last 8 years of such experience, I found lots of people are creating role base pages in dotnetnuke and implement some custom login in either login module or somewhere else that can check the role and redirect.

Is this really required?

Example Scenario

Lets say you are working on a hospital portal in dotnetnuke and want to prepare a dashboard for care taker, admin, manager, and bunch of other roles. 

If you create different pages and drop a single module for role wise dashboard, and use some custom logic to redirect user after login to that page, that is something that needs a second though.

Dotnetnuke security inherited from portal > Tab > Module. Inheriting up to module level is recommended for most of the cases.

I would create a page(tab) and drop all the modules that I prepared for role wise dashboards. I would do multiple modules to make things separate and clean but drop all modules to the same page. In module settings of each module, uncheck the inherit permission button and check the role which is expected to see this module. 

Now, without having too much of coding/customization and tricks, each role can easily access data that is expected to their roles. Easy!

What do you think?



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