Sharepoint 2010: How To Verify if a site user is site Administrator
In this post, will discuss about how to verify if a site user is site Administrator.
In many SharePoint 2010 projects the following code has been user to check if a certain user has full control or not over a specific site:
if (!SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.IsSiteAdmin)
But this code only check if a user is a Site Collection administrator. Even if the current user is in the owners group, it will not work. And therefore, problems will happen once implemented live.
Workaround:
I wrote a method that checks if a user belongs to the Owners group:
if(!isCurrentUserOwner())
Method:
private bool isCurrentUserOwner() { bool currentUserOwner = false; SPUser currentUser = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser; SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate() { try { SPSite currentSite = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Site.Url); SPWeb currentWeb = currentSite.OpenWeb(SPContext.Current.Web.ID); SPGroup ownersGroup = currentWeb.AssociatedOwnerGroup; //Check if currentuser belongs to owners group of the current web foreach(SPUser user in ownersGroup.Users) { if (currentUser.ID == user.ID) { currentUserOwner = true; } } } catch (Exception ex) { //blah blah } }); //Not an owner member return currentUserOwner; }