[support] Access user/role after login

[Brian Choc]

>From the Block building page you can set which roles can see what blocks.
So you can create, for example, a "reviewer" menu and put it in a block that
only "reviewers" can see.


On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Thanks Brian.
> Yes that seems to be what's needed.
> I'll explore the creation of landing pages.
>
> I do not mind if it needs additional modules, any clean way of achieving
> it would be a great help. I haven't found any suitable modules for this.
> Yes pre login is the awkward part.
>
> I don't have the understanding of Drupal yet to set up  filter blocks
> (with menus) by role, is there a tut on how to do that sort of thing?
>
> What if member's login produced a menu from which a user/role could be
> selected and to access that required another password.. would that work?
> If so how would I set up the second password request.
> Thanks
> Roger
> > If I'm following correctly what you're looking for, a simple solution
> with
> > no extra modules could be to create landing pages for each role which
> > include login blocks and whatever else you want, filtered by URL
> > (/memberlogin/reviewer).  Of course, once logged in it's easy to filter
> > blocks (with menus) by role.  It's pre-login that's not so easy, because
> the
> > users do not have roles at that time.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Roger<arelem at bigpond.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> >  Using Drupal 6.19
> >> >
> >> >  We have a generic member's login for group members with password and
> >> >  user based on a current newsletter publication but this does not
> >> >  facilitate different pages depending on user.
> >> >
> >> >  In our system certain users each have a role/responsibility.
>
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