Question

MVC3 has created the following table for me

@foreach (var item in Model) {
<tr>
    <td>
        @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Author)
    </td>
    <td>
        @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Comment)
    </td>
     <td>
        @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id=item.UserCommentID }) |
        @Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", new { id=item.UserCommentID }) |
        @Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new { id=item.UserCommentID })
    </td>
</tr>

}

I am sure everyone has seen this sort of thing a million times before.

Does anyone know if there is any way of hiding or disabling the Actionlinks depending on the item.Author.

(I only want an author be able to Edit or Delete his own comments)

I am thinking that the answer might lie with jQuery but I will be very happy with any solution at all.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Something like this

@if(item.Author == loggedInUserIdOrSomethingYouWantToCompareTo) {
    <text>
    @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id=item.UserCommentID }) |
    @Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", new { id=item.UserCommentID }) |
    @Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new { id=item.UserCommentID })
    </text>
}

obviously you should still check on the controller side to make sure the user has the permissions (it would be easy to “fake” these URLs).