ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider

You could enable role management with ASP.NET membership
When a company signs up, you create a new role and a new company level admin user id.
Individual employee is added by creating a new user id and assigned to the company role.

Thanks

and how would I assign a company to a session variable from a logon usedid?

Could you elaborate please

Thank you

Thank you

what do you mean by "roles[0] is the company you need."

what would I do if I needed an employee to be in an Admin Role or Standard Role also, so more than one role?

cheers

would using profiles be better for this do you think??  Sorry I'm very new to this  Thanks

Dont think you want Memberships, try using profiles. Assign a property to the user that holds the company ID of the company they are associated with, then all you need to do is apply a filter to the datasource that you're pulling the data with and filter by company ID.

You can then reference it in you code by putting Profile.CompanyID or in datasources, when you define your parameters, you can select profile from the pull down and type CompanyID as the property name.

Profile info can be found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163724.aspx

Sounds great Reecio but could you elaborate please with an example perhaps, this would be extremely helpful to me...thank you

Certainly, you need to define the property's in the config.web file like so:

Where MyProviderConnection is the name of the connectionstring you connect to your .net database (contains all the asp_net tables) with and AppName is only really required if you run multiple programs with the same database.


     
       
     

     
       
       
       
          etc....
     


Then you can refer to it as I mentioned above.
Please note, if you want a specific data type you must specify it as above, string types dont need to be defined as they are default.

Also you might want to know how to set up a profile (once its defined) for a user, its just:

[Pretending i've set up controls from Name, DoB and a dropdown for CompanyID]
Dim NewProfile As ProfileCommon = ProfileCommon.Create(NewUser.UserName)
        NewProfile.Name = Name.Text
        NewProfile.DoB = CDate(DoB.text)
        NewProfile.CompanyID = Company.SelectedValue
        NewProfile.Save()

Let me know if you require any more assistance.

Reecio Great answer thanks

Is

Dim NewProfile As ProfileCommon = ProfileCommon.Create(NewUser.UserName)
        NewProfile.Name = Name.Text
        NewProfile.DoB = CDate(DoB.text)
        NewProfile.CompanyID = Company.SelectedValue
        NewProfile.Save()

how to set up a Session Variable not sure what this bit is doing plus not sure what " ProfileCommon.Create(NewUser.UserName)" bit is?

Joechina - Thanks for the tips

Reecio - Great answer!  thank you very much this has helped me tremendously.....

Any code on "(In my program its attached to a createuser control that i've modified so that the profile is created directly after the user is added to the db)." would be great too if you have it. Cheers

nutnut

nutnut, you simply put the ProfileCommon.create code in the createduser event of the createuser control.
Switch the control in to template view and add your own controls, then assign the values of those controls to each of the profile properties before you save them. Thats it really.

Reece

Great, I'll give that a go,  thank you