[Solved] Authorizing Menu once during a user's session

[David St. Pierre]

We are using the menu bar along with forms authentication and want to authorize the menu/menu items once when the user logs in and not perform it on subsequent page requests.  Is there any recommended approaches for doing this?

Thanks

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello David,

Authorization of the Menu depends on ASP.NET MVC authorization mechanism, which uses Authorize attribute. Hence if you need to authorize whole site, then this (Authorize) filter attribute should be called for any Action method. The preferred  way is to register it as global filter attribute, thus it will be applied to whole Action methods. You can check these help topic for more information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd410209.aspxa
http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/service-location-pt4-filters.html

If the Actions are authorized, then the menu items will also honor it.

Regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team