Permissions on Profile Widget

Posted by Community Admin on 12-Aug-2011 00:00

I'm currently working on a project where I need to display single user profiles on a couple of public pages. I've dropped a Profile widget on a page and customized the widget to my needs by setting it to Read mode only and setting it to display a single user.

It works perfectly when I'm logged in, but when not logged in, it just displays the text: "You are not logged in.". I thought this would be pretty easy to fix by altering the permissions, but I just can't seem to figure out how make the widget visible to anonymous users. Is this by design and do I need to create my own custom widget?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

Posted by Community Admin on 15-Aug-2011 00:00

Hello Rein,

Anonymous users can't view profiles by implementation. However, there is a workaround that you can use. For this, you will have to:
1)Create a C# Library Project in the Solution of your Project solution (I named it ProfileWidgetOR)
2) Add references to the following assemblies:
System.Web
System.Web.Extensions
Telerik.Sitefinity
Telerik.Sitefinity.Resources
Telerik.Sitefinity.Model
Telerik.Sitefinity.Utilities
Telerik.Sitefinity.MigrationContracts
Telerik.Web.Design
Telerik.Web.UI
3)Create a Class (mine is name Class1.cs for simplicity) and paste this code into it and Build:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using Telerik.Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Configuration;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Forms.Model;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Forms;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Forms.Web.UI;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Forms.Web.UI.Fields;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Services;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Fields;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Web.UI;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.UserProfiles.Web.UI;

using Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ContentUI.Contracts;

namespace ProfileWidgetOR

public class Class1 : UserProfileDetailReadView

public override string LayoutTemplatePath

get

var userProfileViewHost = (UserProfileView)this.Host;

if (this.IsUserAuthenticated() || (userProfileViewHost.DisplayCurrentUser.HasValue))

string templatePath = null;

if (this.Definition != null)

templatePath = this.Definition.TemplatePath;

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(templatePath))

return this.DefaultLayoutTemplatePath;

return templatePath;

else

if (this.ProfileViewDefinition == null || String.IsNullOrEmpty(this.ProfileViewDefinition.NoUserTemplatePath))

return UserProfileDetailReadView.noUserLayoutTemplatePath;

else

return this.ProfileViewDefinition.NoUserTemplatePath;

set

base.LayoutTemplatePath = value;

public override string TemplateKey

get

var userProfileViewHost = (UserProfileView)this.Host;

if (this.IsUserAuthenticated() || (userProfileViewHost.DisplayCurrentUser.HasValue))

string templateKey = null;

if (this.Definition != null)

templateKey = this.Definition.TemplateKey;

return templateKey;

else

return this.NotLoggedTemplateKey;

set

base.TemplateKey = value;

4) Add Reference to the previously created project from your SitefinityWebApp
5) Go to Sitefinity Backend, then go to
Administration >> Settings >> Advanced >> ContentView >> Controls >>FrontendSingleProfile >> Views >> UserProfilesFrontendRead and set ViewType with this value:
ProfileWidgetOR.Class1 (this is Namespace.Class of the project you have created in the first 3 steps)
6)Put your UserProfile widget (in ReadOnly mode, displaying SelectedUser)

Now anonymous users will be able to see the widget.
Hope that helps.

Greetings,
Svetoslav Petsov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 13-Sep-2011 00:00

Hi Svetoslav,

Thank you for your answer. I have one more question though.

I need to override the settings of the auto-generated details page, so that also anonymous users can view the profile details. How can I achieve the same functionality as your solution above for the details page of the profile?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Rein

Posted by Community Admin on 14-Sep-2011 00:00

Hi Rein,

The ProfileList widget uses the same DetailsView that is used by the SingleUser Widget. This means that you can use the same class and it will work perfectly for the details page of your ProfileList widget. Just go to
Administration >> Settings >> Advanced >> ContentView >> Controls >>FrontendSingleProfile >> Views >> FrontendUsersList >> UserProfilesFrontendDetailsRead and set the ViewType property to be have the same value as the previous one (ProfileWidgetOR.Class1).

Best wishes,
Svetoslav Petsov
the Telerik team

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