How to Disable Menu items of master page from content page

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I am using the Menu control in master page to display a menu, How can i disable some particular menu items at runtime?

2-- I have different users, for each user login some particular menu item should be disabled, where and how can i set the items to be disabled?

Posted 29-Dec-11 5:53am

Mukunda Raj

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-12-29T05:57:00

Solution 1

Stroe the menu items in a database and when you populate the menu, only pull menu items from the database that the user has the correct role for.

Posted 29-Dec-11 5:57am

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Mukunda Raj 29-Dec-11 12:02pm

Could you please explain me where should i pull menu items(which method) and how??

Espen Harlinn 30-Dec-11 6:37am

Right, good advice

NandaKumer · Answer 2 · 2011-12-29T10:02:00

Solution 3

check these blogs
http://forums.asp.net/t/1402337.aspx/1[^]
https://forums.asp.net/t/1733381.aspx/1?Disable+menu+items+on+master+page+from+content+page+code+behind[^]
--NDK

Posted 29-Dec-11 10:02am

NandaKumer

Espen Harlinn · Answer 3 · 2011-12-30T00:40:00

Solution 4

Take a look at Jeff Prosises' The SQL Site Map Provider You've Been Waiting For[^]

This shows one way to implement Johns suggestion.

You can use the sitemap as a datasource for your menu.

Best resgards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 30-Dec-11 0:40am

Espen Harlinn

Member 4560027 · Answer 4 · 2011-12-29T08:59:00

You can add Menu Control in the master page, & fetch the menu permission from the DB for the signed in user.
e.g if I were to have 3 menu control in my master page, I fetch the Menu access from the DB and saving it to the session:

C#

public void DisplayMenuTabs()
        {
            if (Session["Menu1Access"].ToString() == "True")
                Menu1.Visible = true;
            else
                Menu1.Visible = false;
            if (Session["Menu2Access"].ToString() == "True")
                Menu2.Visible = true;
            else
                Menu2.Visible = false;
            if (Session["Menu3Access"].ToString() == "True")
                Menu3.Visible = true;
            else
                Menu3.Visible = false;
        }