What about having templates aassigned to member types with specific content for each eg

userTemplate
managerTemplate

then append to the URL "?alttemplate=userTemplate" this should load that specific template (well know it use too)

In the membership you could assign a template to the member with a custom datatype.

Hope that helps.

Tom

That's an interesting solution. However, the number of member types can grow and I want to try and avoind creating multiple templates, i.e. trying to take out as much time as I can during setup of a new member type. I want to try and leave the setup as much as possible with content writer.  What I'm trying to show is a set of promotion boxes on the homepage for different members so the layout is the same, just that the type of promotion and order would be different.

One thing I was thinking of was something like this:

Homepage
-- Homepage Promos
---- *Promo 1
---- *Promo 2
---- *Promo 3 

* The "Promo (x)" are effectively content stubs for the homepage and restricted by public access. The content editor can determine which type of promotion will be shown to the member.  

I guess my question is, would something like this be ideal? Is it possible to pull in a content stub (Promo (x)) into the homepage and it pull in the correct one according to the member type?

Cheers,

Bij

What about about assigning tags using the tags manager to the promos which correspond to the membertype.

eg member = Manager, tag = Manager

That way the only thing you need to update is the tags assigned to the promo and call all the promos with the tag Manager

Tom

Not a bad idea, I'll have a look into this one.

Is there a good package to handle with tags? Or use just a textstring property (or similar) to manage?

there is allready tags datatype built into umbraco 

else this is a good package i've used before http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/sniper-systems-tags-control

I started using the tag approach but spec changed and used public access permissions instead. I used the same structure as mentioned in my post above and used razor to determine which promotion should show

@using DigibizAdvancedMediaPicker
@using umbraco.MacroEngines                                                     
@inherits umbraco.MacroEngines.DynamicNodeContext                                          
@{ 

    var promoBlocks = @Model.AncestorOrSelf(1).DescendantsOrSelf("HomepagePromoBlock");

    foreach (var promo in promoBlocks)
    {
        if (promo.HasAccess())
        {    
            if (promo.hotspots != null)
            {
                var mediaIds = promo.hotspots.Split(',');

                foreach (string mId in mediaIds)
                {
                    dynamic mediaItem = new DynamicMedia(Int32.Parse(mId));
                    dynamic hotspotImage = new DynamicMedia(Int32.Parse(@mediaItem.hotspotImage));

                    <a href="#" title="Hyperlink"><img src="@hotspotImage.umbracoFile" alt="image" /></a>
                }
            }
            return;
        }
    }
}

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