You're pretty much described the entire purpose of groups and permissions.
Could you just create an extra permission, add it to each of those groups,
then check for that permission where you would use the flag?
Blair
On 8/8/07, Chris Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to check the current user's groups, and if they are a memeber
> of a certain list of groups set a flag that I can use pretty much
> anywhere. Where is the best place/scope (session,request??) to set
> this... for example.
>
> for exmaple, if I set this in the dmheader.cfm include, it does nto
> seem to "always" be available.. (ie search results, etc.)
>
> <cfparam name="WHATSCOPE??.VIP" default="0">
>
> <!--- determine the policy groups (or roles) this user belongs to --->
> <cfif isDefined("session.dmsec.authentication.lPolicyGroupIDs") and
> listLen(session.dmsec.authentication.lPolicyGroupIDs)>
> <!--- concatenate logged in group permissions with anonymous group
> permissions --->
> <cfset lpolicyGroupIds =
> session.dmsec.authentication.lPolicyGroupIDs
> & "," & application.dmsec.ldefaultpolicygroups>
> <!--- check for sales partners access --->
> <cfset lVIPGroupIDs = "18,10">
> <cfloop list="#lVIPGroupIDs#" index="i">
> <cfif listfind(session.dmsec.authentication.lPolicyGroupIDs
> ,i)><cfset
> WHATSCOPE??.VIP = 1></cfif>
> </cfloop>
> <cfelse>
> <!--- user not logged in, assume anonymous permissions --->
> <cfset lpolicyGroupIds = application.dmsec.ldefaultpolicygroups>
> </cfif>
>
>
> >
>
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