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[Resolved] Additional Roles – conditional based on both being selected

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Problem: I would like to use a conditional to show information to Users in a specific role "Manager". My site allows multiple roles, and [wpv-current-user info="role"] only returns the first role. So if the User's secondary role is Manager, this won't work in a conditional to test for the Manager role.

Solution: You can use Toolset's Access control shortcode to test if the current User has any role, including primary and secondary roles.

[toolset_access role="manager" operator="allow"]
I am a manager
[/toolset_access]

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/access-control/access-control-texts-inside-page-content/

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#1466243

I have used [wpv-current-user info="role"] to see what is exported, but it's only the main role. I'd like to set up a conditional based on any of the additional roles selected (so not combined, but ONE of the other roles).

So for example if my main role is Contributor, but I have an additional role of Manager selected in the User > Additional roles section, how do I set up a conditional as below.
[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-current-user info="role"]' eq 'manager' )"]I am a manager[/wpv-conditional]

#1468021

Hi, there's not an easy way to do this with conditional HTML but you could use Toolset Access control shortcodes:

[toolset_access role="manager" operator="allow"]
I am a manager
[/toolset_access]

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/access-control/access-control-texts-inside-page-content/

#1468153

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!

Worked perfectly, just for information used lower case m.

#1471187

Great, I will update the example code to reflect the correct capitalization.

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