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Access Rights - Hierarchical Groups

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Let's say I have a group "Parent Group". It has a sub group "Child Group". If I have a user, who is a member of "Parent Group", why is User.IsInRole("Child Group") == false?

Is there any way to "Set Access Rights" on a page such that group rights bubble? I would expect that a user who is a member of "Parent Group" would have access to any page which is set to allow Read access to "Child Group" but this does not appear to be the case. 

#90298
Sep 05, 2014 7:54
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It should work, se here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8261737/web-app-active-directory-user-roles-vs-user-isinrole

Check that Child Group is a securitygroup otherwise it might not work

#90299
Sep 05, 2014 8:09
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On further investigation I can see that I had it around the wrong way. A child group is considered a member of it's parent groups (recursively) - parent groups are not members of their child groups.

#90338
Sep 08, 2014 6:10
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Hmm, I did not see that when I read, but that is true.

Great that it works!

#90339
Sep 08, 2014 7:44
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