Question

hide nodes according to roles

Asked by: vthunder70

good day experts,
I am using the asp.net sitemap control and I have enable the security trimming. It half way works, it shows 5 links for everybody and 4 extra links when members are logged in. But, when I assigned one node to be only acces by a superAdmin role it is still visible to everybody.

I'll attach my code to see if you can give me a hand with restricting my menu

thanks,

my menu
============
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
    <siteMapNode url="default.aspx" title="HOME"  description="home">
        <siteMapNode url="about.aspx" title="ABOUT"  description="about" />
        <siteMapNode url="details.aspx" title="DETAILS"  description="details" />
        <siteMapNode url="news.aspx" title="NEWS"  description="news" />
        <siteMapNode url="projects.aspx" title="PROJECTS"  description="projects" />
        <siteMapNode url="contact.aspx" title="CONTACT"  description="contact" />
      <siteMapNode url="admin/addCollection.aspx" title="ADD COLLECTION"  description="add collection" roles="Admin" />
      <siteMapNode url="admin/addPhoto.aspx" title="ADD PHOTO"  description="add photo" roles="Admin" />
      <siteMapNode url="admin/collections.aspx" title="COLLECTIONS"  description="collections" roles="Admin" />
      <siteMapNode url="admin/admin.aspx" title="ADMIN" description="admin" roles="SuperAdmin" />
    </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>
 
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web.config file
=====================
  <siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true">
      <providers>
        <add name="XmlSiteMapProvider"
          description="Default SiteMap provider."
          type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider "
          siteMapFile="Web.sitemap"
          securityTrimmingEnabled="true" />
      </providers>
    </siteMap>
                                  
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2008-06-25 at 13:58:57ID23516214
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asp.net 2.0 using vb.net

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ie 6 ie 7 firefox

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Programming for ASP.NET

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Microsoft Visual Basic.Net

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.NET Framework 2.x

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Answers

 

by: TornadoVPosted on 2008-06-30 at 06:56:06ID: 21899152

Add the following to your web.config and it should do the trick:

<location path="admin/admin.aspx">
    <system.web>
         <authorization>
      <allow roles="SuperAdmin"/>
      <deny users="*"/>
         </authorization>
    </system.web>
</location>

Hope this helps

 

by: vthunder70Posted on 2008-06-30 at 07:51:24ID: 21899626

so do I have to that to every page?

 

by: TornadoVPosted on 2008-06-30 at 08:22:31ID: 21899983

You have two options:

1. Do that for every page
2. Place all secured pages in a separate folder and create another web.config and place it in the above mentioned folder.

Hope this helps.

 

by: vthunder70Posted on 2008-06-30 at 08:29:16ID: 21900063

Hi tornado,
All my files are in an admin folder, inside the admin folder i have webconfig file that restrics use to annonymous users and only allows Admin and SuperAdmin.

my menu doesn't show the link for this pages(which is good) unless you sign in. but the problems is once you sign in nomater who you are you get too see link that Admin and SuperAdmin are only suppose to see

so what I want, is for my menu to not show certain links unless you are admin or superAdmin, and if you are an admin you can't see the superAdmin links

know what I mean?
thanks a lot!

 

by: TornadoVPosted on 2008-06-30 at 08:34:07ID: 21900104

I understand exactly what you mean, adding location section to your web.config should help.  If you don't want to create a separate location section for every page that needs to be visible to SuperAdmin role members, then create a separate folder for SuperAdmin pages and create a new web.config.

 

by: vthunder70Posted on 2008-06-30 at 09:17:44ID: 21900503

oh really! :(

I was trying not to creat a lot folders.. oh well, I will try your suggestion tonight and get back to you.

thnaks a lot.

I also have another question if you are interested in possible getting more points =)
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/.NET/ASP.NET/Q_23511563.html

 

by: TornadoVPosted on 2008-06-30 at 09:23:00ID: 21900549

I know, it's a pain in a neck, but your web app needs a way to know which pages to protect.

Thank you for the pointer, I will take a look.

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