Dynamic Prompts for Users: Hide a prompt/input based on role

[tdiestel]

Hi All;

I have 2 types of users that will be coming to our dashboard. The first should be able to see all the different companies that belong to the organization. The next would be a user that could only see info for a single company in the organization. The ability to see the data depending on the users has been handled in our Role definitions, which is working great. But my problem/question arises with the prompt on the dashboard which allows the user to select what company they would like to view.

This prompt basically is just a list of all the companies the user has access to see, so to first user it is all the companies and for the second user it is just their 1 company. Thus the prompt really is only prominent for the first user and not the second, since the second only has 1 choice.

Is there a way to make the prompt only appear when the first user logs in and remain hidden when the second user logs in?

Thanks,
Tyler

[jeffland · Accepted solution]

Basically you need two things: find the current user's role and make the display of that promt dependent on the result of that. The second part is really easy, there's a depends tag in XML you can use for that; see more here.

For the first, you can get that information as explained here for example.