Hi Lori,

You can do this with the PublicAccessService (docs)

you can get the rule for a current content item, GetEntryForContent:

var rule = publicAccessService.GetEntryForContent(contentItem);

or you can add rules first by creating a rule,

var rule = new PublicAccessEntry(contentItem, loginNode, noAccessNode, new List<PublicAccessRule>());

(you need to have a content node for the login page (loginNode), and one for the error/no access page (noAccessNode)).

then you can add rules to it.

rule.AddRule(ruleValue, ruleType);

Rule value will be the user/group and rule type is the type of rule. rule type is either MemberUsername or MemberRole these are defined in Umbraco (so you can use these to be sure)

Umbraco.Core.Constants.Conventions.PublicAccess.MemberRoleRuleType
Umbraco.Core.Constants.Conventions.PublicAccess.MemberUsernameRuleType

then you can save it

publicAccessService.Save(item);

this should create a rule against a bit of content, rules inherit down, so if you do this on for example the homepage all rules beneath that will be protected.

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