check for condition in site.master page - asp.net

Question

I have a site.master page in an asp application which contains a div menu and it looks like this.
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li class="first">home</li>
<li>manager services</li>
<li>employee services</li>
<li>my projects</li>
</ul>
</div>
What i want is that the manager services portion should be visible only if a particular employee has his 'Is_Manager' field set to True in the database. For the rest this tag should be invisible. How do I achieve this?? How do i check for this contidion over here in this site.master page? please help.

Answer 1

Do it inside of the mark up. In the code behind on page load, set the Is_Manager flag and look it up from the database. Then, in the markup, do this:
<% if(Is_Manager){%>
<li>Manager Services</li>
<%}%>

Answer 2

Given what you've provided so far ...
in the cs file for the master:
protected bool IsVisible;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){
IsVisible = (bool)Session["isVisible"];
}
in the aspx for the master page
<style>
.manager { visibility = <%= (IsVisible) ? "visible" : "hidden" %>;}
</style>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li class="first">home</li>
<li class="manager">manager services</li>
<li>employee services</li>
<li>my projects</li>
</ul>
</div>