Hi

How do I hide sitemap nodes based on "roles" recieved in a server variable?

My site is protected by GetAccess/Entrust. The authentication is therefore done elsewhere. If the user is authenticated the ServerVariables("http_role") will include the users roles. Example: ServerVariables("http_role") = "wba, wor.wba, wpd.wba" which means the user can place orders and read product information (see nodes 2-9 in the sitemap below), but not see prices or news:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
    <siteMapNode url="default.aspx" title="1 Home" description="">
      <siteMapNode url="" title="2 Bitstream Access" description="" role="wba">
        <siteMapNode url="" title="3 Orders" description="" role="wor.wba">
          <siteMapNode url="" title="4 Ordreafgivelse" description="" role="wor.wba" />
          <siteMapNode url="" title="5 Track &amp; Trace" description="" role="wor.wba" />
        </siteMapNode>
        <siteMapNode url="" title="6 Products" description="" role="wpd.wba">
          <siteMapNode url="" title="7 Productinfo" description="" role="wpd.wba" />
          <siteMapNode url="" title="8 Userguides" description="" role="wpd.wba" />
          <siteMapNode url="" title="9 Seminars" description="" role="wpd.wba" />
        </siteMapNode>
        <siteMapNode url="" title="10 Prices" description="" role="wpr.wba">
          <siteMapNode url="" title="11 Pricelists" description="" role="wpr.wba" />
          <siteMapNode url="" title="12 Price changes" description="" role="wpr.wba" />
        </siteMapNode>
        <siteMapNode url="" title="13 News" description="" role="wny.wba">
          <siteMapNode url="" title="14 Newsletter" description="" role="wny.wba" />
        </siteMapNode>
      </siteMapNode>
    </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

The nodes 10 - 14 have to be hidden/disabled, but not deleted from the sitemap. How can I do that?

Thanks
Schoesler

Hi,

i've a similar problem but without roles involved. I'm implmeneting a website where you can configure some stuff. The complete configuration steps reside in a sitemap as a Menu on the left hand side. Depending on the configuration you made some sitemapnodes should be disabled, for instance if you configure something and because of your configuration the next step makes no sense. But how to do that. I havent find a way to do that with sidemapnodes.

thanks for you support.

Hi Schoesler,

Base on your description, you want to hid the sitemap nodes base on the role, right/

From the code that you provioded, we can see you set the roles for the each sitemap node, if you want to implement to hide the sitempanode base on the role, you need to set the securityTrimmingEnabled is true in the web.config file's sitemap section.

For example: <siteMap defaultProvider="secureProvider">
        <providers>
          <add name="secureProvider" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"
               siteMapFile="web.sitemap" securityTrimmingEnabled="true"/>
        </providers>

The more you can read this article :    http://blogs.msdn.com/dannychen/archive/2006/03/16/553005.aspx

Hope it helps.