front page by role priority management - like in filter_default

thanks for the heads up about that, Andrabr. Will have a looksee.

Dub

I don't know about filter, but there's similar functionality in the 6.x branch of FCKEditor.

In the meantime, does anyone have a work-around to order the roles?

hi Bob,

I'll have a look at that FCKEditor functionality when I get a chance, but, a quick workaround for the moment would be to mark the custom roles as "same as authenticated users" use a PHP snippet in the text area settings for authenticated users to present different front page content to different users.

Here's an example:

global $user;
$output = '';
if (in_array('Guitarists',$user->roles)) {
$output = 'YOUR OUTPUT for guitarists GOES HERE';   
}
if (in_array('Drummers',$user->roles)) {
$output = 'YOUR OUTPUT for Drummers GOES HERE';   
}
if (in_array('Singers',$user->roles)) {
$output = 'YOUR OUTPUT for Singers GOES HERE';   
}
print $output;

hope that helps

Dub

here's a slightly more advanced snippet which might be easier to manage....it dynamically loads the main body of another node into the front page for you.

global $user;
$embednode = '';
if (in_array('Guitarists', $user->roles)) {
  $noderef = '2'; // change the node ID to suit
  }
if (in_array('Drummers', $user->roles)) {
  $noderef = '3'); // change the node ID to suit
  }
if (in_array('Singers', $user->roles)) {
  $noderef = node_load('4'); // change the node ID to suit
  }
$embednode = node_load($noderef);
print  node_view($embednode, $teaser = TRUE, $page = FALSE, $links = TRUE);

Appreciate the workaround, Dublin. I might be able to get the second snippet to work for me with some tweaking. In this particular app I'm using the module not for splash pages but rather to present different front page content to different roles (members vs. non-members, youth members vs. adult members, etc.). The site is pretty complex and the users not very sophisticated. Altering front page and navigation to suit the likely tasks/information needs of each user type is a real plus.

Of course at the moment I took the temporary expedient of blowing away all my roles and re-ordering them to make the module work. ;0

glad to be able to help

In this particular app I'm using the module not for splash pages but rather to present different front page content to different roles

that's precisely what the module and the snippet above is intended fori.e. manage the front page content....you would tend to use a front-page.tpl.php to implement a different layout. there are more switches on the node_view function that allows you to switch off links etc. which may prove useful.

Of course at the moment I took the temporary expedient of blowing away all my roles and re-ordering them to make the module work. ;0

Be careful with that..I'm not certain about this, but, if you switch role names around like that...the guitarists may have the permissions of a drummer now because, afaik, $user->roles are keyed by a number rather than by the name you assign to a role. in other words, a drummers permission to edit drum nodes might be role type "2" rather than role type "drummer".

Recommend you logout and login as another role to check that.....