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• J.Hoventer Master

  Posted on Dec 18, 2009 (permalink)

  It would be useful for the administrator to be able to specify permissions for each of the Master Pages / Templates so that different Roles / Groups can be given rights to use only specific Master Pages / Templates.

  
  

  Regards,

  Jacques

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Dec 18, 2009 (permalink)

  Hello J.Hov,
  
  Thank you for your suggestion, we will consider it for Sitefinity 4.0. There could be some hack in the current 3.x version as well.
  
  1. Create a class that inherits from TemplatesList and override OnPreRender. Then get a template from templates collection. Below is the complete implementation.
  
  

  using System;

  using System.Collections.Generic;

  using System.Linq;

  using System.Web;

  using Telerik.Cms.Web.UI;

  using System.Collections;

  using Telerik.Cms;

  using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

  using Telerik.Security;

   

  /// <summary>

  /// Summary description for TemplatesListCustom

  /// </summary>

  ///

   

  namespace Telerik.Samples

  {

      public class TemplatesListCustom : TemplatesList

      {

          public TemplatesListCustom()

          {

              //

              // TODO: Add constructor logic here

              //

          }

   

          protected override void OnPreRender(EventArgs e)

          {

              base.OnPreRender(e);

              IList templates = (IList)this.DataSource;

              foreach (IPageTemplate temp in templates)

              {

                  LinkButton btn = ((LinkButton)this.FindControl(temp.ID.ToString()));

                  if (btn != null && btn.Text.Equals("Blank") && UserManager.IsCurrentUserInRole("somerole"))

                  {

                      btn.Visible = false;

                  }

              }

          }

      }

  }

  
  Open \Sitefinity\Admin\ControlTemplates\PageTemplates\TemplatesListEditor.ascx and replace the default TemplatesList control with the custom one.
  
  2. You can disable template selection from the PageEdit mode by crating a custom class that inherits from Edit Page class
  
  sample
  
  

  public class HackEditPage : EditPage

  {

      public HackEditPage()

      {

      }

    

      // override CreateChildControls method.

      protected override void CreateChildControls()

      {

          base.CreateChildControls();

    

          //Find the toolbar control

          ToolBar toolbar = this.Form.FindControl("toolbar") as ToolBar;

          // find the container where themes DropDownList control is located

          // here you can use recursion as well.

          Control cntr = toolbar.Controls[0].Controls[0];

             ....

                  .....

          if (cntr != null && toolbar != null)

          {

              // find the DropDownList control

               DropDownList ddList = cntr.FindControl("themes") as DropDownList;

                 // loop through the list items

                  foreach (ListItem item in ddList.Items)

                  {    

                      // do something here or manage ddList control

                  }

           }

       }

    

  }

  
  
  Sincerely yours,
  Ivan Dimitrov
  the Telerik team

  
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