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Mark Smit 4 posts 85 karma points

Nov 09, 2015 @ 21:21
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How to check if an umbraco user is logged in on a frontend request

Using Umbraco 7

Umbraco 7
To restrict access to a page I'd like to check if an umbraco user is logged on. In my RenderMvcController I tried the following:
```
        var loggedOn = umbraco.library.IsLoggedOn();
        var getCurrentUser = umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetCurrent();
        var getCurrentUmbracoUser = umbraco.helper.GetCurrentUmbracoUser();
        var securityCurrentUser = UmbracoContext.Security.CurrentUser;
        var umbracoEnsuredPageCurrentUser = umbraco.BasePages.UmbracoEnsuredPage.CurrentUser;
```
However, all of the above return null or false regardless of a user being logged into umbraco or not. What is the correct API call to check this?

Kind regards, Mark Smit
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Dennis Aaen 4499 posts 18254 karma points admin hq c-trib

Nov 10, 2015 @ 11:07
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Hi Mark,

Have you seen the documentation for the UmbracoHelpers, there you will find some when you are working with members. https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Querying/UmbracoHelper/

.MemberHasAccess(int nodeId, string path); Returns a Boolean on whether the currently logged in member has access to the page given its ID and path.
```
@if(Umbraco.MemberHasAccess(CurrentPage.Id, CurrentPage.Path)){
    <h1>Welcome!</h1>
}   
```
.MemberIsLoggedOn() Returns a Boolean on whether there is currently a member profile
```
@if(Umbraco.MemberIsLoggedOn()){
    <h1>Welcome!</h1>
}
```
.IsProtected(int pageId, string path) Returns a Boolean on whether a page with a given pageId and path has public access restrictions set.
```
@foreach (var child in CurrentPage.Children) { 
    <h2>@child.Name</h2>
        @if(Umbraco.IsProtected(child.id, child.Path)){
            <blink>Members only</blink>
        }
}
```
And then we also have the member service that you can find the documentation here https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/reference/management/services/memberservice

Hope this helps,

/Dennis
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Mark Smit 4 posts 85 karma points

Nov 13, 2015 @ 09:06

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Dear Dennis,

Thank you for your reply. However I'm not interested in Members, I want to know if an umbraco (backend!) User is logged in.

As an addition: I also tried annotating mycontroller action with [Umbraco.Web.WebApi.UmbracoAuthorize] but no success (always no access, regardless of a User being logged into umbraco or not).

I hope somebody can help me.

Kind regards, Mark Smit

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Per Olsson 47 posts 307 karma points

Nov 13, 2015 @ 09:19
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```
@if(umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetCurrent() != null) { // do something }
```
Should do the trick.
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ZNS 60 posts 198 karma points

Nov 13, 2015 @ 09:25

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for 7.2.8+ the only thing I've got to work is this:

using Umbraco.Core.Security; var ticket = new System.Web.HttpContextWrapper(System.Web.HttpContext.Current).GetUmbracoAuthTicket(); if (ticket != null) { var user = Umbraco.Core.ApplicationContext.Current.Services.UserService.GetByUsername(ticket.Name); } I'd prefer to use some user api, but those I've tried have all returned null.

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Chris Wilson 100 posts 377 karma points

Aug 10, 2016 @ 10:59

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This works for me, but I second the idea of a simple method returning a Boolean.

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Per Olsson 47 posts 307 karma points

Nov 13, 2015 @ 10:00

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ZNS is correct, as of 7.2.4+ you can no longer use Umbraco's "CurrentUser" method from the front-end (it's however used by the backoffice).

http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-6496

http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-6342

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