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How to allow ALL roles to see a menu item? Options
RocketDawg
Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2008 4:12:03 PM
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I know how to allow specific roles to see a menu item, but how do you allow all roles to see it? In other words, if a user is logged on, it's visible, else, no.

Thanks for any help.
Code: Visual Basic.NET
eo_support
Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2008 5:43:00 PM
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Hi,

You can set AlloweRoles to "*" to do that. These are all valid values:

1. Leave it empty. All visitors, regardless logged in or not, are allowed;
2. "*" (without quotation marks), only logged in users are allowed. This is your case;
3. "?" (without quotation marks), only anonymous users are allowed;
4. A list of real roles;

Thanks
RocketDawg
Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2008 5:51:06 PM
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I have tried the *, with no success. It still allows all viewing, even if not logged in.
I am using V3.1.11.2 if it makes a difference.

Any idea on what may be the problem?
eo_support
Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2008 6:10:54 PM
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Hi,

That appears to be a bug. We will see if we can get it fixed as soon as possible.

Thanks
RocketDawg
Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2008 6:16:58 PM
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Thank you for your quick replies!

Will you post when you get the bug fixed? Or how does that work?
eo_support
Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2008 6:39:55 PM
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Yes. We will reply in the forum and also provide you the download location of the new build. You MAY need a new license for the new build though because it would be for the current release, which is 2007.2. If you do not have a license for the current release, you can use the following code:

Code: Visual Basic.NET
Private Sub Page_Load( _
    ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim isAnonymous As Boolean = _
            Not (HttpContext.Current.User Is Nothing) And _
            Not (HttpContext.Current.User.Identity Is Nothing) And _
            Not HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated
        DisableItems(Menu1.Items, isAnonymous)
End Sub

Private Sub DisableItems( _
    ByVal items As EO.Web.MenuItemCollection, _
    ByVal isAnonymous As Boolean)

    Dim item As EO.Web.MenuItem
    For Each item In items
        If item.AllowRoles = "*" And isAnonymous Then
            item.Disabled = True
        End If

        DisableItems(item.SubMenu.Items, isAnonymous)
    Next
End Sub


Thanks
RocketDawg
Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2008 6:49:10 PM
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EXCELLENT!!!

I must say a huge thank you, as well as how much I appreciate the prompt, and helpful support.

WELL DONE!

The code that you supplies works as a patch until the new build comes out.

Thanks again,
RocketDawg.
eo_support
Posted: Monday, February 4, 2008 9:43:32 AM
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Hi,

We have posted a new build that fixed this issue. Please see your private messages for download location.

Thanks!
Justin
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2008 3:55:08 AM
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If I set AllowRoles="" then all users can see the menu item
If I set AllowRoles="?" no users can see the menu item
If I set AllowRoles="Administrator" only admin users can see the menu item

I need to set a menu item that only anonymous users can see it, am I missing something in my web.config?

I have it working find for Set Roles in dedicated sub directories, but now I want only anonymous users to see a menu item and page for a specific file in the root.
eo_support
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2008 5:13:50 AM
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Hi Justin,

In your case, you would set all the items who you do not want anonymous users to see as "*", and leave other items blank. You can then use the sample code provided in the previous post to translate AllowRoles into MenuItem.Enabled/Visible.

Thanks


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