Goal
This article provides information about the functionality, configuration and workflow behind the filter by permissions feature of the Sitefinity connector.
Prerequisite
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Configured Connector - Configure Hawksearch |
Steps to configure filtering by Permissions
Open the Sitefinity backend, create a user and assign him a role
Edit the permission for that role so that the user cannot view a certain content type e.g News
Go to Content and create one blog post and one news
Go to Administration → Search Indexes , create an index and reindex
Create a Sitefinity page and open it for editting
Place the Hawksearch box and Hawksearch results widgets
Open the widget designer of each widget and click the Filter by permissions checkbox
Under Where to search choose the newly created index and save the changes
Open the page in the Frontend and search for the news that was created
Filter 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. |
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