"View as" not working in custom top menu

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"View as" not working in custom top menu

Vote:

I have a top menu that loads the top pages using the following code:

//get top level pages visible and in menu
IEnumerable allChilds = repository.GetChildren(ContentReference.StartPage);
IEnumerable filteredChilds = FilterForVisitor.Filter(new PageDataCollection(allChilds)).Where(p => p.IsVisibleOnSite() && p.VisibleInMenu);

My problem is that when the editor is using the "view as" and enables a specific visitor group, everything changes as it should except the menu. It seems like the p.IsVisibleOnSite() ignores the chosen visitor group"

How can I fix this, anyone got any ideas?

#88971

Aug 05, 2014 10:28

Vote:

IsVisibleOnSite() has nothing to do with access rights, ref:
http://world.episerver.com/Documentation/Class-library/?documentId=cms/7.5/8726F47F

FilterForVisitor.Filter() runs FilterPublished(), FilterAccess() and FilterTemplate().

I thought that FilterAccess would remove any pages not relevant for chosen visitor group.

Could you try also running FilterContentForVistor?

#88976

Aug 05, 2014 12:08

Vote:

Thankyou for your answer Mari.

Tried FilterContentForVistor and same result. Note that this works perfektly in non-admin mode, using the same code. So I am thinking its editor-mode related.

#88981

Aug 05, 2014 13:34

Vote:

Ah, then FilterForVisitor does what it's supposed to.

I did a quick test in one of my projects and it works both from view mode and using "View as" functionality (using version 7.8). I gave access rights (read access) to the visitor group and removed read access for "Everyone" for the test-page.

#88982

Aug 05, 2014 14:02

Vote:

Mari, could you elaborate? Should I do extra tests in admin mode. Basically I just want to emulate what the users see. I'm on 7.5

#88985

Aug 05, 2014 14:18

Vote:

To test I did the following in edit mode:

Edit one of the pages in that is part of the main menu
Using the "Visible to" property I removed read access for "Everyone" and added read access for "VisitorGroup A"
I then navigated to start page, used "View settings" (eye icon) to select view for "VisitorGroup A".
I also opened the site in another browser where I was not logged (not part of visitor group) in to verify that the page was not visible

#88990

Aug 05, 2014 15:06

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