Roles and Site map etc.

SPDmma · December 14th, 2008, 02:42 PM

I want to allow access to a page, menu item or chunk of code by whether the user is authenticated/registered. For code like this: this.User.IsInRole("Administrators") how would I do it for registered users?

And this code from the web.sitemap the same question:
<siteMapNodetitle="$Resources: SiteMap, Admin"url="~/Admin/Default.aspx"roles="Administrators,Editors,Contributors">

One last thing: I chnaged the Sitemap by adding a node and received this message: The resource object with classname 'SiteMap' and key 'Account' was not found.

Was not found where? Is there another place I need to change something?

Thanks everyone, for some reason this stuff is eluding me,

Shawn

Lee Dumond · December 14th, 2008, 03:58 PM

1. To allow access to a page for authenticated users, test the value of User.Identity.IsAuthenticated.

2. The default sitemap provider in ASP.NET does not implement security trimming based on authentication, but only on authorization (i.e., filtering based on roles). But there are other ways to handle this scenario. One way would be to enclose part of your navigation in a LoginView control. Another would be to place all registered users in a default role.

3. As for the other part, you need to read the chapter on Globalization and Localization to understand how to work with globalization resources.

SPDmma · December 14th, 2008, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee Dumond

1. To allow access to a page for authenticated users, test the value of User.Identity.IsAuthenticated.

2. The default sitemap provider in ASP.NET does not implement security trimming based on authentication, but only on authorization (i.e., filtering based on roles). But there are other ways to handle this scenario. One way would be to enclose part of your navigation in a LoginView control. Another would be to place all registered users in a default role.

3. As for the other part, you need to read the chapter on Globalization and Localization to understand how to work with globalization resources.

Thanks! I just figured out 2 & 3. 1 I hadn't figured out # 1 yet. Thanks a bunch.