Security / Membership & Role Providers / User Manager / Advanced
Overview

Create “Users”, “Roles”, and “UserRoles” tables using one of the scripts for Advanced Membership and Tables. Configure the custom membership map and generate the project.

Advanced Membership Provider in Action

When the website is first initialized, the standard user accounts admin and user will be created, and can be used to sign in to the web application. Two roles will be created: Administrators and Users. Both accounts will be assigned Users role, and admin will be assigned Administrators role.

Logging into the Advanced Custom Membership web application with the admin standard user account.

Log in and navigate to the Users page.

The default grid view of Users controller

View the details for any user.

Users edit form. All fields are displayed as editable.

Let’s perform the following enhancements:

  1. The user should not be able to view the fields Password and Password Answer.
  2. The data fields will be separated into several categories.
  3. Is Approved and Is Locked Out will be changed to a check box.
  4. All date and count fields will be read-only.
  5. Roles will be added as a many-to-many field.

In addition to these changes, the Users page will be moved to the end of the menu, and will only be visible to administrators.

The final step would be to prevent default CRUD operations from being performed, and create business rules that will use the ASP.NET Membership API to perform updates to the Users and UserRoles table.

This is the final Users grid view.

Customized User Manager screen.

The final Users form will look like the picture below:

Final user management screen.Final user management screen.