There is currently no other way to determine if a page is in episervers edit mode than looking at the request. You can always investigate if the current page is read only or not to see if the page is beeing edited though. Another aproach is to use a control adapter to hide certain properties for a user. Here is some code to get started. You also have to register the control adapter in the app_browsers\adaptermappings.browser file by adding the following row: Here the sample adapter that hides the property for all users not beeing member of the group "nonexistingrole": using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using EPiServer.Web.PropertyControls.Adapters; using EPiServer.Security; namespace EPiServer.Test { public class PropertyControlSecurityAdapter : PropertyDataControlAdapter { public override bool DisplayEditUI { get { return EPiServer.Security.PrincipalInfo.Current.Principal.IsInRole("nonexistingrole"); } } } } Good luck! Linus Ekström EPiServer Development Team

man, this really sux (to be frank) this should be pretty basic.

Hi Sam, have you tried checking the url? e.g. if (HttpContext.Current.Request.UrlReferrer != null) { mode = Regex.IsMatch(HttpContext.Current.Request.UrlReferrer.LocalPath, "/admin/|/edit/", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase); } return mode;

Hi Sam, have you tried checking the url? e.g. if (HttpContext.Current.Request.UrlReferrer != null) { mode = Regex.IsMatch(HttpContext.Current.Request.UrlReferrer.LocalPath, "/admin/|/edit/", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase); } return mode;

Whats up with all those questionmarks?