Hi,

This post might help: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/5669-Setting-Public-Access-on-a-node-programatically 

Tim

Hi Jan,

this may not help, but did you perform a save on the document after setting the membership to the group? 

d.Save();

Also, I think AddMemberGroupToDocument is obsolete. 

Thanks,
Nik

Thanks for the fast response guys. I got it solved now using Tim's example as an inspiration. :)

/Jan

Hi everyone,

This post helped me get started so I thought I would show how I implemented it. My site has a document type called Lectures. These by default are only visible to paying members. However we allow some lectures to show on the site for public consumption. I added a boolean property to my Lecture data type called "Public". The default is false. I wrote this ApplicationBase class to inject my default policy. 

This allows my users to create a new lecture and simply check a box for public instead of manually setting the permission on each item. It also enforces the permission rules so that someone does not forget to restrict access to the new lectures. 

Also note the I store the Login and Error node id values in the web.config as a Application Setting to make this highly configurable. I guess if you wanted you could refactor this to work for any document type by making a custom configuration setting in your web.config with rules for permissions. If I ever get any free time I'd love to make a package that allows for default permission schemes. 

 public class LecturePermissions :ApplicationBase
    {
        public LecturePermissions()
        {
            Document.BeforePublish += new Document.PublishEventHandler(Document_BeforePublish);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// This method will create/clear the permissions for Lecture nodes based on the "Public" flag status.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        void Document_BeforePublish(Document sender, umbraco.cms.businesslogic.PublishEventArgs e)
        {
            if (sender.ContentType.Alias == "Lecture")
            {
                // Default to Non-Public for lectures
                var publicPropertyValue = sender.getProperty("public").Value; 
                var isPublic = publicPropertyValue == null ? false : Convert.ToBoolean(publicPropertyValue);
                
                if (!isPublic)
                {
                    // Add the default protections

                    int loginDocId = Convert.ToInt32(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Premium.LoginPageId"]);
                    int errorDocId = Convert.ToInt32(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Premium.ErrorPageId"]);

                    Access.ProtectPage(false, sender.Id, loginDocId, errorDocId);
                    Access.AddMembershipRoleToDocument(sender.Id, "PremiumMembers");
                    sender.Save();
                    umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(sender.Id);

                }
                else
                {
                    // Remove the security 
                    Access.RemoveProtection(sender.Id); 
                }
            }
        }
    }

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