Change site looks based on loggedin users profile property

Question

Which is best practice to achieve change in look (color of top bar) based on a custom user profile property?

Property has value yes/no/null.

1. Using pre init event to change masterpage dynamically? I am worried this technique will update show last updated master page if property is null.

2. Loading the css file dynamically via user control.

3. Any other method?

Answer 1

You have below options:

• OPTION 1:

Use a custom user control where you get the UPS property & based on the value register a script using

ScriptManager.RegisterStartUp

or some other way based on whether you are using Update panels in your control.

Basically you have to do below in the script file/function: using JQuery get the top bar HTML element & set the css using

$(".classNameofTopBar").css({background-color: Red});

Alternatively you can add a CSS reference from your code https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2943037/adding-stylesheets-programmatically-in-asp-net

You must finally ensure that you have CACHING enabled for your user control as it will fire every time. You need to consider performance too and I believe the UPS property wont change that frequently.

• OPTION 2:

See whether the UPS property is exposed to the OOB SharePoint property loader control. In SP 2010 we can just add a reference to OOB user control & then use it in your JS code to set the color as stated above.

http://chrisstahl.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/user-information-in-sharepoint-2010-with-help-of-the-spcwc-control/