Hi,

You can use the roles and users in mojoPortal within your own modules fairly easily. The documentation is lacking on this and we'll probably use this post as a base for new docs.

There are several helper methods you can use to determine if a user is in a particular role or if they are in a role which has been assigned a system permission. These methods are in the mojoPortal.Business.WebHelpers.WebUser class.

• bool IsInRole(string role)
  • Example: WebUser.IsInRole("Foo");
• bool IsInRoles(string roles) 
  • Example: WebUser.IsInRoles("Foo;Bar;");
• bool IsInRoles(IList roles)
  • Example:

    var roles = new List<String> { "Foo", "Bar" };
    WebUser.IsInRoles(roles);		

• bool IsAdmin
• bool IsContentAdmin
• bool IsContentPublisher
• bool IsContentAuthor
• bool IsRoleAdmin
• bool IsNewsletterAdmin
• bool IsAdminOrContentAdmin
• bool IsAdminOrContentAdminOrContentAuthor
• bool IsAdminOrContentAdminOrContentPublisher
• bool IsAdminOrContentAdminOrContentPublisherOrContentAuthor
• bool IsAdminOrContentAdminOrRoleAdmin
• bool IsAdminOrRoleAdmin
• bool IsAdminOrContentAdminOrRoleAdminOrNewsletterAdmin
• bool IsAdminOrNewsletterAdmin
• bool HasEditPermissions(int siteId, int moduleId, int pageId)

Any page which inherits from mojoBasePage should also be able to use the following methods:

• UserCanViewPage()
• UserCanViewPage(int moduleId)
• UserCanViewPage(int moduleId, Guid featureGuid)
• UserCanEditModule()

Finally, SiteSettings has several site permission strings available that can be used with the WebUser methods to determine if a user has a particular Site Permission. These are just strings of roles (separated by semi-colon) so you can use WebUser.IsInRoles(siteSettings.RolesThatCanCreateUsers) to determine if the user is in a role defined by a particular permission.

• SiteRootEditRoles
• SiteRootDraftEditRoles
• SiteRootDraftApprovalRoles
• CommerceReportViewRoles
• RolesThatCanCreateRootPages
• RolesThatCanViewMemberList
• RolesThatCanCreateUsers
• RolesThatCanManageUsers
• RolesThatCanViewMyPage
• RolesThatCanLookupUsers
• RolesNotAllowedToEditModuleSettings
• RolesThatCanEditContentTemplates
• GeneralBrowseAndUploadRoles
• UserFilesBrowseAndUploadRoles
• RolesThatCanDeleteFilesInEditor
• RolesThatCanAssignSkinsToPages
• RolesThatCanManageSkins
• DefaultRootPageViewRoles
• DefaultRootPageEditRoles
• DefaultRootPageCreateChildPageRoles

I hope this helps. If you have questions, please ask.

Thanks,
Joe