I've got a support ticket open about this but wanted to see if I could get any feedback from the community.  I have a page called "Support" which apparently conflicts with a page in the Administration area.  I noticed a method for IsBackend() to determine if a page is part of the Admin.  However, when I try to apply it to my LINQ query, it's blowing up.  Here's the code:

Hello Chris,

Try using this code

var pgs = App.WorkWith().Pages().Where(p => p.IsBackend == false).Get().ToList();

All the best,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi Ivan,

That code is producing the following error:

Server Error in '/Dev' Application.

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Telerik.Sitefinity.Pages.Model.PageNode, Telerik.Sitefinity.Model was not granted View in Pages for principals with IDs 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Line 38: 
Line 39:             //var pages = pManager.GetPageNodes().Where(pN => pN.UrlName == currentURL);
Line 40:             var pages = App.WorkWith().Pages().Where(p => p.IsBackend == false).Get().ToList();
Line 41:             tmpHolder.Text = "<br /><br />";
Line 42:             foreach (PageNode page in pages)

[SecurityDemandFailException: Telerik.Sitefinity.Pages.Model.PageNode, Telerik.Sitefinity.Model was not granted View in Pages for principals with IDs 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000]
   Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.PermissionApplierEnumerator`1.Demand(T forItem) +225
   Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.PermissionApplierEnumeratorBase`1.MoveNext() +112
   System.Linq.WhereEnumerableIterator`1.MoveNext() +148
   System.Collections.Generic.List`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 collection) +472
   System.Linq.Enumerable.ToList(IEnumerable`1 source) +76
   SitefinityWebApp.controls.standardMenu.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\Sitefinity 4.0\Projects\AccusoftDev\controls\standardMenu.ascx.cs:40
   System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +25
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +95
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +190
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +190
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +190
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +190
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +2760

Hi Chris,

You get the error, because you are not logged in or the user you use cannot view some of the pages, so you cannot retrieve them using the API.

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi Ivan,

It's a public menu so the user, more times then not, will not be logged in.  How do I look-up the current, non-Administrative page, for everyone?

Chris

Hi Chris,

You can grant Anonymous user to have access over your pages or use PageManager.GetManager().Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks, but it is recommended to consider which users you may grant with the view, edit ,modify etc.

All the best,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

Hi Ivan,

Maybe I'm confused but this suppressing the security checks concerns me - can this create a security problem?  All I'm trying to do is determine what page on the front of the site a user is on, based on the current URL.  For example, if they're at mydomain.com/support, I look-up support to determine the page, if they're at mydomain.com/support/knowledgebase, I look-up knowledgebase to determine the page.  My goal is to determine the parent page - in the previous example this is support for both pages.

The problem is, using the sample code in this thread previously posted in this thread, it's returning both the front support page and the administrative support page.  Since it's a menu widget that appears on the front of the site, I don't want any administrative menus.  I don't really want to fiddle with the security since almost ALL users loading this widget in their template will be public/anonymous users.  Maybe I'm going about this wrong, but how can I determine the current public page I'm on based on the URL ignoring all Admin menus?

Hi Chris,

You can work with the SiteMapBase class . You can get the current page by using GetActualCurrentNode() method.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team