Question

Different themes

1

During runtime based on a decision made in a microflow checking user roles, how do you set different themes? For instance, when logging in as an Administrator, see a theme (i.e. red menu bar with admin logo). When logging in as a User see a different theme automatically (i.e. green menu bar with user logo). p.s the themes must change on login.

asked 2011-09-22

Vincent Grobler

3 answers

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Currently not possible without a proper custom widget. We are testing this for Mendix 3.0, the user role (ur_administrator e.g.) will be added to the body class. Feature request always helps.

answered 2011-09-23

Erik Heddema

0

See this question.

answered 2011-09-22

Erik Heddema

Daniel Schilperoord · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-23

In order to add the names of the current user's user roles to the body, you could use this script. It should be added right below the inclusion of mendix.js.

<script type="text/javascript">
    (function() {
        var classes = [];

        dojo.connect(mx.ui, "startup", function() {
            dojo.addOnLoad(function() {
                var roles = mx.session.getUserRoles("Name");

                for (var i = 0, role; role = roles[i++];) {
                    var claz = "role-" + role.toLowerCase();
                    dojo.addClass(document.body, claz);
                    classes.push(claz);
                }
            });
        });

        dojo.connect(mx, "logout", function() {
            for (var i = 0, claz; claz = classes.pop();) {
                dojo.removeClass(document.body, claz);
            }
        });
    })();
</script>

This will add all user role names to the body (in lowercase, and with a 'role-' prefix to distinguish it from theme classes). Then you could do user role specific things such as

.role-administrator .MxClient_headerPane {
    background-color: red;
}