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Determine profile of logged-in portal user

Note: This task is applicable only to Zoho Creator.

This deluge task is used to check if the logged-in customer portal user belongs to a specified profile or not.

This task returns boolean value 'True' if the logged-in customer portal user belongs to the specified profile. Otherwise, it returns 'False'.

<variable> = thisapp.portal.isUserInProfile( <Profile_Name> );

Parameter	Description
<variable> (optional)	Variable which will hold the returned value.
<Profile_Name>	Name of the profile to check if the logged-in customer portal user has been assigned to that profile. Points to note for this parameter: If the specified profile name does not exist, execution will be stopped during run-time and an error message will be displayed. You can view the existing customer portal profiles in the Customer Portal permissions page. Data type is Text.

Parameter

Description

(optional)

Variable which will hold the returned value.

<Profile_Name>

Name of the profile to check if the logged-in customer portal user has been assigned to that profile.

Points to note for this parameter:

If the specified profile name does not exist, execution will be stopped during run-time and an error message will be displayed.
You can view the existing customer portal profiles in the Customer Portal permissions page.

Data type is Text.

When a record is Created
On Load	Yes
On Validate	Yes
On Success	Yes
On User input	Yes
Subform on add row	Yes
Subform on delete row	Yes
When a record is Created or Edited
On Load	Yes
On Validate	Yes
On Success	Yes
On User input	Yes
Subform on add row	Yes
Subform on delete row	Yes
When a record is Edited
On Load	Yes
On Validate	Yes
On Success	Yes
On User input	Yes
Subform on add row	Yes
Subform on delete row	Yes
When a record is Deleted
On Validate	Yes
On Success	Yes
Other workflow events
On a scheduled date	No
During approval process	Yes
During payment process	Yes
In a Custom Function	Yes
In an Action item in report	Yes

A sample snippet being used to determine if the logged-in customer portal user belongs to the "Customer" profile.

boolVal = thisapp.portal.isUserInProfile("Customer");