[Solved] NavigationItemAuthorization and custom AuthorizeAttribute

[herman chan]

Hi,

We have a custom authorizeAttribute in our application such that if you are not login to our application, you'll get redirect to the login page.

It does it by returning false on AuthorizeCore when you are not login.  Moreover, we still want to user to be able to click on the menu item so that the user can get redirect correctly.  However, the NavigationItemAuthorization implementation will make the menu item invisible since AuthorizeCore returns false.  Is there anyway to turn of Authorization checks for certain menu items?

Thanks!

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello herman chan,

The aforementioned behavior is expected. Menu items will be always check if they are authorized if the Action and Controller methods.

You can achieve your goal if you set URL of the menu items through URL() method like so:

items.Add().Text("Index2").Url(Url.Action("Index", "Home"));

Thus the items will always be visible and click-able.

Greetings,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team

[herman chan]

Hi Georgi,

I am using the SiteMap binding method for menu item generation, so when I bind, can I use ItemAction to achieve what you mentioned?

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello herman chan,

That is correct. You can use ItemAction in order to set URL property of the item instead of Action and Controller properties.

Kind regards,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team