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Episerver LinkItemCollection not visible to non CMS users
What happends if you just put a <EPiServer:Property runat="server" PropertyName="PageLinks" /> in your user control or template? Does it render a list of links?
Mar 29, 2012 23:08
I just tried it and unfortunately I get the same result, nothing is output. I have however noticed something very strange, if I go in as a CMS editor and Save and Publish the page again then it works. However the next time I perform a build in Visual Studio the property is blank again.
Any ideas on why this could be happening?
Mar 30, 2012 11:25
One guess could be something related to languages.
Another wild guess is that "PageLinks" could be a reserved word somehow...
I've compared your PT-definition and it looks the same as the ones I usually use.
Edited,
Mar 30, 2012 11:30
Changed the definiton from PageLinks and no change, although the Language suggestion is interesting as when I deployed the solution I disabled all languages apart from one and removed the globalization option. I also removed all the files in the /lang folder that we for languages we wern't using
I added globalization back in and put back the lang files back however still have the same issue.
I also checked the Page using this property has Everyone Access rights, however the links just disappear after we make a change to the PageType
Mar 30, 2012 12:29
Still no joy with this but using the debugger I can see the SettingContainer for the property is null and the SettingsId = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, is this normal?
Mar 30, 2012 13:18
If someone faced the same issue look at
http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Oskar-Zetterberg/Dates/2011/9/LinkItemCollection-and-the-danger-with-StringDelayedLoadThreshold/
Nov 08, 2012 16:55
This thread is locked and should be used for reference only. Please use the Episerver CMS 7 and earlier versions forum to open new discussions.
We are using PageTypeBuilder to define our PageTypes, on one page we have a property which represents a Link item collection as below:
[PageTypeProperty(Type = typeof(PropertyLinkCollection), HelpText = "Test links.", EditCaption = "Test links", SortOrder = 11)] public virtual LinkItemCollection PageLinks { get; set; }We can populate this in CMS editor mode with links, save and publish without any errors. We then have a user control that inherits from EPiServer.UserControlBase and grabs the LinkItemCollection property using the below code and binds it to a repeater:
var links = currentPage.Property["PageLinks"].Value as LinkItemCollection; if (links != null) { linkRepeater.DataSource = links; linkRepeater.DataBind(); }If I view the page when logged in as a CMS editor this page works fine and the links parameter is populated correctly, however if I view the page as a normal user and not logged in the links variable is always null (although when I'm debugging I can see the currentPage.Property["PageLinks"] is present, and the type is LinkCollection, its just that the Value is null
Is there something I need to configure here, permissions on a specific page type?