Hide authorized menu item in asp.net web.sitemap

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I have a web.sitemap with security trimming enabled, however I need to hide a menu item based on a role to a page that has no access rules in the web.config.

i.e I have a Campaign page that is used to view existing campaigns as well as to add new campaigns, but I want the "New Campaigns" menu item to be hidden for anonymous users.
I tried adding the role name to the roles attribute in the web.sitemap but this has no effect.

I'm sure there must be a quick way to do this without modifying the sitemap provider which is my next port of call.

Best Answer

If this is just a special case for anonymous users, you could create a second SiteMap.

Create a new file WebAnon.sitemap.
Create a new sitemap provider in the web.config

<add name="anonProvider" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="WebAnon.sitemap" securityTrimmingEnabled="true"/>

Set the SiteMapDataSource's SiteMapProvider property to "anonProvider" in the code behind if its an anonymous user.

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Have you restricted access to the folders that should be restricted with a web.config file.

for example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <authorization>
          <allow roles="Administrator" />
          <deny roles="user"/>
        </authorization>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

while searching found a link you may also have a look at it: http://www.mytakeon.net/post/2006/09/The-SQL-SiteMap-Provider-and-trimming-by-roles-%28originally-posted-2006-09-20%29.aspx

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