Question

I am trying to create a sitemap menu based on roles but when I add all the roles to the root menu and then just individual roles to the individual menu items, I always get everything within the menu.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
  <siteMapNode url="" title="Menu"  description="" roles="Role1;Role2;Role3">
    <siteMapNode url="~/page1.aspx" title=""  description="" roles="Role1;Role2;Role3">
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode url="~/page2.aspx" title=""  description="" roles="Role2; Role3">
    </siteMapNode>
    <siteMapNode url="~/page3.aspx" title=""  description="" roles="Role3">
    </siteMapNode>
  </siteMapNode>
</siteMap>

For as per above, Roles 1,2,3 can see the root menu.
I am part of Role1 therefore I should only be allowed to see page1.aspx but instead I can see all three.

How to fix that?

The menu is to be shown like so:

Page1 | Page2 | Page3

so if I am only in Role1 I should see:

Page 1 |

Answer 1

Follow 4guysfromrolla’s sitemap menu tutorial Section 3 – Configuring Site Navigation to Use Security Trimmings

The site navigation settings can be configured through the Web.config file using the following pattern:

<siteMap defaultProvider="XmlSiteMapProvider" enabled="true">
  <providers>
    <add name="XmlSiteMapProvider"
      description="Default SiteMap provider."
      type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider"
      siteMapFile="siteMapFileName"
      securityTrimmingEnabled="true" />
  </providers>
</siteMap>

follow the article for detailed information..