We have a web app that calls a Java web service to get a token. This token is
then used as an input parameter to authenticate any further web service
calls. The web service handles the usual session stuff (no access if no
activity for 20mins, etc)
The web service then hands back the username and a list of products that the
user has purchased.
We have a fairly complex menu system that hides and displays items based on
the product that a user has bought.

What I was hoping I could do was use the menu control in ASP.Net 2.0 and
create a role for each product and use security trimming to handle the menu
display.
However in order to do that I somehow have to programatically log a user in
(based on getting a valid token back from the web service)
Then I could programatically add the user to a role based on the product
list coming back from the web service.

If not, is there some other way of manipulating the menu so that I can
configure it based on some attribute in the sitemap and then dynamically
alter the menu based on the user's product?

you shoudl be supplying a roleprovider and perhaps a membership provider.
then all the role logic in all the controls will work.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)


"Bernard" wrote:

> We have a web app that calls a Java web service to get a token. This token is
> then used as an input parameter to authenticate any further web service
> calls. The web service handles the usual session stuff (no access if no
> activity for 20mins, etc)
> The web service then hands back the username and a list of products that the
> user has purchased.
> We have a fairly complex menu system that hides and displays items based on
> the product that a user has bought.
>
> What I was hoping I could do was use the menu control in ASP.Net 2.0 and
> create a role for each product and use security trimming to handle the menu
> display.
> However in order to do that I somehow have to programatically log a user in
> (based on getting a valid token back from the web service)
> Then I could programatically add the user to a role based on the product
> list coming back from the web service.
>
> If not, is there some other way of manipulating the menu so that I can
> configure it based on some attribute in the sitemap and then dynamically
> alter the menu based on the user's product?