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Mark Hall
May 16, 2018
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Hide Sites in Page Tree for editors without Create or Edit Access rights

Recently I was asked by a customer how they could hide sites in the page tree for users without edit access.  I thought this was easily done using access rights, but I was wroing as the content still shows but cannot be edited since everyone has read access.  After some googling I found this article which was for CMS 6R2.  I tried removing the everyone role read access, but that led to the none of the sites showing in the page tree. 

Next I tried the next forum post which led to this article.  The code below is a continuation of the code found on the blog post by Thomas Krantz.  Please note that this code only cares about pages so editors will still have access to commerce content, blocks, media, etc.  It is also required either Edit or Create access to show the tree.

using EPiServer.Cms.Shell.UI.Rest.ContentQuery;
using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.Data.Dynamic;
using EPiServer.Filters;
using EPiServer.Security;
using EPiServer.ServiceLocation;
using EPiServer.Shell.ContentQuery;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

namespace EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Infrastructure
{
    [ServiceConfiguration(typeof(IContentQuery))]
    public class MyGetChildrenQuery : GetChildrenQuery
    {
        private readonly IContentRepository _contentRepository;
        private readonly IContentQueryHelper _queryHelper;
        private readonly LanguageSelectorFactory _languageSelectorFactory;

        public MyGetChildrenQuery(IContentQueryHelper queryHelper, IContentRepository contentRepository, LanguageSelectorFactory languageSelectorFactory) 
            : base(queryHelper, contentRepository, languageSelectorFactory)
        {
            _contentRepository = contentRepository;
            _queryHelper = queryHelper;
            _languageSelectorFactory = languageSelectorFactory;
        }

        public override int Rank => 100; 

        protected override IEnumerable<IContent> GetContent(ContentQueryParameters parameters)
        {
            if (((parameters.References == null) || !parameters.References.Any()) && ContentReference.IsNullOrEmpty(parameters.ReferenceId))
            {
                return Enumerable.Empty<IContent>();
            }

            var selector = _languageSelectorFactory.AutoDetect(true);
            IContent content = null;

            if (!ContentReference.IsNullOrEmpty(parameters.ReferenceId))
            {
                content = _contentRepository.Get<IContent>(parameters.ReferenceId) as PageData;
                if (content == null)
                {
                    return base.GetContent(parameters);
                }
                if (content.ContentLink.ID == 1 || (FilterAccess.QueryDistinctAccessEdit(content, AccessLevel.Edit) || FilterAccess.QueryDistinctAccessEdit(content, AccessLevel.Create)))
                {
                    return GetChildren(parameters, parameters.ReferenceId, selector);
                }
                return Enumerable.Empty<IContent>();
            }

            var filteredContent = new List<IContent>();
            foreach(var link in parameters.References.ToList())
            {
                content = _contentRepository.Get<IContent>(link) as PageData;
                if (content == null)
                {
                    filteredContent.AddRange(base.GetContent(parameters));
                    continue;
                }
                if (!FilterAccess.QueryDistinctAccessEdit(content, AccessLevel.Edit) || !FilterAccess.QueryDistinctAccessEdit(content, AccessLevel.Create))
                {
                    continue;
                }
                filteredContent.AddRange(GetChildren(parameters, parameters.ReferenceId, selector));
            }
            return filteredContent;
        }

        private IEnumerable<IContent> GetChildren(ContentQueryParameters parameters, ContentReference parentId, LanguageSelector selector)
        {
            IEnumerable<IContent> children = null;

            if (parameters.TypeIdentifiers != null && parameters.TypeIdentifiers.Any())
            {
                // Get by type and concatenate into one list
                children =
                    parameters.TypeIdentifiers.Select(i => TypeResolver.GetType(i, false))
                        .Where(type => type != null)
                        .SelectMany(type => GetChildrenByType(type, parentId, selector))
                        .Distinct()
                        .Where(x => FilterAccess.QueryDistinctAccessEdit(x, AccessLevel.Edit) || FilterAccess.QueryDistinctAccessEdit(x, AccessLevel.Create));
            }
            else
            {
                children = _contentRepository.GetChildren<IContent>(parentId, selector)
                    .Where(x => FilterAccess.QueryDistinctAccessEdit(x, AccessLevel.Edit) || FilterAccess.QueryDistinctAccessEdit(x, AccessLevel.Create)); ;
            }

            return (children ?? Enumerable.Empty<IContent>());
        }
    }
}

Here is how the access rights or setup for the site in questions.

Image AccessRights.png

Here is how the user permissions has been setup.

Image UserPermissions.png

Here is the site with administrator access.

Image Adminsitator.png

Here is the site with just site1 access.

Image Site1.png

May 16, 2018

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