RadMenuItem Visible Not Working

[Rob]

I'm trying to set the visiblity of a RadMenuItem based on code.  I've seen some other posts but they seem rather difficult or sloppy to maintain.  My end goal is to run it through a function that will return true or false.  I've simplified it for discussion purposes. 

This code below should work.  But it doesn't.  Any ideas?

<telerik:RadMenuItem runat="server" NavigateUrl="~/users/manage_users.aspx" Text="Users" Visible='<%# "false" %>'>

</telerik:RadMenuItem>

I don't get an error but the menu item still shows.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rob

[Kate]

Hi Rob,

Thank you for contacting us.

Can you elaborate a bit more on your scenario? Do you need to use a binding expression that will take a particular value from your database and assign it to the Visible property or you are trying to assign a simple value to this property?  

Greetings,
Kate
the Telerik team

[Rob]

In this scenario, I want to use Roles to show/hide the visible property.  Some links are for Admin only.  Some links are for Sales people only, etc...

[Kate]

Hi Rob,

I am not quite sure about the approach that you use in order to hide/show menu items depending on the different user roles but I can suggest few post where a very similar functionality is implemented. For example  the following post explains in details how you can achieve the desired logic: Can i hide/ show asp:Menu items based on role? Since this article is related to the asp menu control, however, I would also suggest that you use any of the properties described in the following help article Accessing Items to find the menu items that needs to be hidden/shown when a user logs as a different role.

Kind regards,
Kate
the Telerik team