Custom content based on induvidual Front End User

[gstwebdev]

Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible at all to determine what each individual user sees when they are logged in.
Im using the front end user and custom content modules

I currently have pages which determine what the users see by group; but am wanting to customise it further so that individual users can have a custom screen only to them.

at the minute i am using:
{if $ccuser->loggedin()}
{* content only for users that belongs to a specific group *}
{if $ccuser->memberof('GroupName')}
<div class="companyscreen"> {content block="GroupName" label="Group 1 content"}</div>
{/if}

{if $ccuser->memberof('OtherGroup')}
<div class="companyscreen"> {content block="Other" label="Content for Other Group"} </div>
{/if}
{/if}

is it possible to use a tag such as 'user_name' instead of memberof ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Dr.CSS]

Asked and answered just a few days ago, please to search...

[gstwebdev]

Do you mind please posting the link, as I searched for hours and hours and could not find what I was looking for. it would be much appreciated; thanks.

[mr.bacan]

Hi gstwebdev,

Did you managed to solve this issue? I'm facing the same problem and can't find the post with the solution.

Thanks for any help on this.

[jmcgin51]

{if $ccuser->username('the_users_username')}
{* content only for that specific user *}
{/if}

[mr.bacan]

{if $ccuser->username('the_users_username')}
{* content only for that specific user *}
{/if}

Thanks for your reply. The issue here is that it only works on a specific user. I have 30 different users and I want each user to go to a personalized page.

How could that be achieved?

Thanks again for your help.

[staartmees]

after a succesfull login, I would redirect them to a selectionpage with the following code:

{if $ccuser->loggedin()}

{if $ccuser->username('user1')}
{redirect_page page='user1'}
{/if}

{if $ccuser->username('user2')}
{redirect_page page='user2'}
{/if}

{/if}

[mr.bacan]

That's what I was thinking staartmees, but then I thought that every time a new user is added, the template must be edited.

Isn't there any tag to get the logged user's username automatically and then pass that as a variable on the redirect?

For example:

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{if $ccuser->loggedin()}

{if $ccuser->username('userid')}
{redirect_page page='userid'}
{/if}

{/if}

Thanks for your help on this.

[jmcgin51]

For example:

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{if $ccuser->loggedin()}

{if $ccuser->username('userid')}
{redirect_page page='userid'}
{/if}

{/if}

Even easier:

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{if $ccuser->loggedin()}
{redirect_page page=$ccuser->username()} 
{* where the page alias == the logged-in user's username *}
{/if}

You could also do this via userid instead, if you wanted to.

This kind of functionality would best be combined with a UDT that automatically creates a new page (with alias == username) when a user is created. Otherwise it will still potentially be a lot of work for the administrator to create all of the pages.

[mr.bacan]

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{if $ccuser->loggedin()}
{redirect_page page=$ccuser->username()} 
{* where the page alias == the logged-in user's username *}
{/if}

Thanks for your answer, I wasn't able to test it last week. Now that I finally do, it doesn't work, it seems that "{redirect_page page=$ccuser->username()}" has an error, because it breaks my template. If I remove "$ccuser->username()" and put anything else, it works.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks again.

[jmcgin51]

sorry - try just {$username} instead.

so

{if $ccuser->loggedin()}
{redirect_page page=$username}
{* where the page alias == the logged-in user's username *}
{/if}

[mr.bacan]

{if $ccuser->loggedin()}
{redirect_page page=$username}
{* where the page alias == the logged-in user's username *}
{/if}

Thanks a lot jmcgin51, this worked like a charm. Sorry for my delayed answer on this, but I was on a business trip and didn't had the time to test it.

I'll keep making a few tests, but at a first glance it looks like you solved my problem.

Thanks a lot for your time guys.