Role Based Navigation

Question

I\'ve been trying to come up with a way to create a dynamic role based navigation solution for a project that I am working on.

The navigation should display only li

Answer 1

SOLUTION

As suggested, I created a ChildAction called Menu and partial views for each role. Inside the action I do some role checking using some conditional statements and render the appropriate view.

This keeps the conditional statements out of the views which makes it a lot cleaner solution.

I'm sure there are a few things that could be done to tidy it up and I will continue trying to improve it.

Here is the solution I used.

In the layout view where I wanted the menu to appear I used this.

@Html.Action("Menu", "Navigation")

Then I created a controller called Navigation and added a single Action called Menu.

public class NavigationController : Controller
{

    [ChildActionOnly]
    public ActionResult Menu()
    {
        if (Roles.IsUserInRole("Administrator"))
        {
            return PartialView("_NavigationAdmin");

        }

        return PartialView("_NavigationPublic");
    }

}