Best practice to get user-information on all pages. #285 | Support Center

samvh created 9 years ago

Hello,

I have a 'what would be best'-question, I hope you can help me with it.

I'm using a bootstrap topbar and a dropdown div to display the current logged-in user information. This bar and user information should be available on all pages.

What would be the best way to retrieve this information. I'm thinking about 3 solutions:

Use the ISessionAppService and send GetCurrentLoginInformationsOutput to the shared _Layout view.
Use the UserManager to obtain the User and store the needed values in a ViewModel that is used in the _Layout.
Use the User.Identity in _Layout and extend it with the necessary fields.

I assume that 1. and 2. would be done in the ...ControllerBase so that all the Controllers can use the functionality.

Thanks !

2 Answer(s)

hikalkan created 9 years ago

Support Team

I seperated header to a partial view and calling

@Html.Action("Header", "Layout")

from _Layout.cshtml. And this is the Header action:

[ChildActionOnly]
        public PartialViewResult Header()
        {
            var headerModel = new HeaderViewModel
            {
                LoginInformations = AsyncHelper.RunSync(() => _sessionAppService.GetCurrentLoginInformations()),
                Languages = LocalizationManager.GetAllLanguages(),
                CurrentLanguage = LocalizationManager.CurrentLanguage,
                IsMultiTenancyEnabled = _multiTenancyConfig.IsEnabled
            };

            return PartialView("_Header", headerModel);
        }

Hope it helps :)

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samvh created 9 years ago

Helped me very much :) Thanks!

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