Goal
The Sitefinity connector provides a mechanism which can filter the autocomplete and search results depending on the user’s role.
Prerequisite
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Configured Hawksearch - Configure Hawksearch |
Steps to configure filtering by permission
Open or create a Sitefinity page
Place the Hawksearch box and Hawksearch results widgets
Open the widget designer of each widget and click the checkbox
Filtering by permissions workflow
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When filtering is active the connector exposes endpoints for the search and autocomplete queries making it work as a proxy. |
Searching and typing trigger the connector’s endpoints
A server-side call to the Hawksearch API is made which returns the result for that request
The user’s permissions are evaluated and used to filter the results server-side
Important note
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By filtering the results on the server nobody will be able to intercept the request client-side and see the results before they were filtered. |
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