I'll try to re-post and see if it works this time.

Not sure if all of this is possible, I'll have to do a research about this.
However I do have experience in solving some of these problems.

1. Not sure how to approach this, maybe you can get inspired from this magic?
https://world.optimizely.com/forum/developer-forum/CMS/Thread-Container/2019/3/access-rights-for-properties/

2. You can override the content save/publish event in Optimizely and trigger an API call. I can't say it's best practice, but it's the first thing that came to my mind.
Maybe this one can give some inspiration?
https://world.optimizely.com/blogs/Daniel-Ovaska/Dates/2019/6/content-events-in-episerver/

3.
- Documentation on how indexing works:
https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/content-management-system/v1.1.0-search-and-navigation/docs/indexing-search-and-navigation

- Depending on how you have configured sitemap, you might be able to exclude all contents that have a true boolean on ExclusiveNews, when you generate the sitemap.

- Just do the same with Robots.txt, exclude all the content that you don't want to be crawled.

4. I can't see how it can be exposed in Content Search API if it's not in Optimizely Search & Navigation.

I hope my answers are good enough to point you to the right direction.


It worked!

Hello Manoj,

You can use a custom editor decriptor to validate the user's access to a property and otherwise hide it.  This is re-evaluated on page load:

    [EditorDescriptorRegistration(TargetType = typeof(string), EditorDescriptorBehavior = EditorDescriptorBehavior.Default)]
    public class RestrictedStringPropertyEditorDescriptor : EditorDescriptor
    {
        public override void ModifyMetadata(ExtendedMetadata metadata, IEnumerable<Attribute> attributes)
        {
            base.ModifyMetadata(metadata, attributes);

            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(metadata.PropertyName) && metadata.PropertyName.Contains("RestrictedFieldName"))
            {
                var canAccessField = // Add your user evaluation here

                metadata.ShowForEdit = canAccessField;
            }
        }
    }

Hi Manoj,

I think you can follow this article and tweak it based on your needs
https://world.optimizely.com/blogs/tomek-juranek/dates/2025/4/block-thumbnail-based-on-website-on-multisite-solution/