{"id":120,"date":"2007-06-27T22:20:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T22:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkesy.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/27\/blind-leading-the-blind\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T22:20:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T22:20:40","slug":"blind-leading-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/27\/blind-leading-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind leading the blind"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m about two thirds of the way through the Visual Web Developer book i got this week<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve just created a site map file, enabled security trimming in the web.config file but couldn’t get one of my menu entries to only appear when logged in<\/p>\n

Normally i read it first, then create it myself instead of just blindly copying the example<\/p>\n

I just wanted two entries. A general page for anyone and a members only page.<\/p>\n

Home
\n|—Members Only
\n|—General<\/p>\n

So this is\u00a0node section of my web.sitemap\u00a0file<\/p>\n

\u00a0<siteMapNode url=”~\/Default.aspx” title=”Home”\u00a0 description=”Go to home page”>
\n\u00a0\u00a0<siteMapNode url=”~\/MemberPages\/MembersOnly.aspx”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 title=”Members only”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 description=”Members only”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 roles=”SiteMembers” \/>
\n\u00a0\u00a0<siteMapNode url=”~general.aspx”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 title=”General”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 description=”General Stuff” \/>
\n\u00a0<\/siteMapNode>
\n<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n

When i previewed in the browser all the menu items appeared, even though i’d specified a role for it.<\/p>\n

So i went back and copied the example to the letter….still the same<\/p>\n

This is\u00a0where i’m glad for having some experience reading Microsoft help files!<\/p>\n

What the section in the book neglets to mention is this little snippet i found on MSDN<\/a><\/p>\n

The security-trimming feature uses URL authorization on each request to determine whether a user has access to a URL that is associated with a siteMapNode<\/strong> element.<\/h6>\n

So i removed the url attribute and volia! It worked as i was expecting it to<\/p>\n

But then i thought..”now i’ve removed that i have no link to click”<\/p>\n

and thats when the pieces fell into place (penny drop? more like a couple of grand!)<\/p>\n

The pages didn’t actually exist. I hadn’t created them as i was just playing with the concept and the book itself didn’t tell me to create the pages for the example it used<\/p>\n

I had already created a change password page that only members could access so changed it to point\u00a0to that<\/p>\n

\u00a0<siteMapNode url=”~\/Default.aspx” title=”Home”\u00a0 description=”Go to home page”>
\n\u00a0\u00a0<siteMapNode url=”~\/MemberPages\/ChangePasswordaspx”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 title=”Change Password”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 description=”Change Password Here”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 roles=”SiteMembers” \/>
\n\u00a0\u00a0<siteMapNode url=”~general.aspx”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 title=”General”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 description=”General Stuff” \/>
\n\u00a0<\/siteMapNode><\/em><\/h6>\n

Bingo!<\/p>\n

I went back and looked at the chapter again and it doesn’t actually tell you specifically to create the pages…so the example would never have worked<\/p>\n

I can’t believe i was worried though…i haven’t run into anything at the moment that i don’t get. Granted this is just a getting started book but i’m pretty pleased with myself so far!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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