Goal
This article provides information about the functionality, configuration and workflow behind the filter by permissions feature of the Sitefinity connector.
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Configured Connector - Setup of the Hawksearch connector Connector: Applying Settings |
Steps to configure filtering by Permissions
Open the Hawksearch Settings: Administration → Settings → Hawkseatch and check if the Filter By Permission is on. If not, please select it.
Open the Sitefinity backend and create a role under (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/Administration/Roles)
Open the Sitefinity backend, create a user under (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/Administration/Users)
Assign the user the newly created role
Go to Content and create one blog post and one news article
Edit the permission for that role so that the user cannot view the News article you created
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5. Go to Administration → Search Indexes , create an index and reindex (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/Administration/Search)
6. Create a Sitefinity page and open it for editing (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/adminapp/pages)
7. Place the Hawksearch box and Hawksearch results widgets
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When the index is created and Filter by Permissions is turned on in the Hawksearch configuration each document is sent with fields specifying users in which roles are permitted to view the document and users in which roles and / or the user id are not allowed to view it. As mentioned in the Search Workflow when a search request is made it contains the roles of the user making the request. Hawksearch then compares these roles with the permissions of each document and determines whether the user can view the document.
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