[thelist] Looking for dynamic menus for ASP pages

[Casey Crookston]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Carter"


> I'm rewriting a website and need a horizontal drop-down menu system (ASP/
> JavaScript based) that will allow me to populate each user's menu based on
> the user's permission level.  It would be pretty straightforward to write
a
> SQL query to return the user's menu list on a page by page basis.  This is
> all about permissions, and controlling access to certain reports.  There
> will be a form page where administrators can "pick" the menus each user
will
> see in each drop-down.  Menu items will be stored and retrieved from a SQL
> database.
>
> Does anyone know a good off-the-shelf menu product out there that has
> similar characteristics?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam


Sam,

The elephant sized barier you will encounter to finding an off-the-shelf
solution is that you will NEVER find one that fits your client's exact
security needs.  You may find one that can be adabted to fit, but now you
are looking at serious $$.  (I'm thinking along the lines of PeopleSoft and
Oracle delivered products.)

Your post didn't ask for help on developing such a solution yourself, so I
won't bore you with my thoughts on that.  Rob offered some advice, but I
think he's making it more complicated then it needs to be.  I'll just say
that I think you are barking up the wrong tree by looking for an existing
system.

If you want to give it a go and do it yourself, we can help!

Casey