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LinkItemCollection personalization feature

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Hi.

I am using the LinkItemCollection property for my websites menu links, but some of these menu links I would like to hide from the users based on user roles. Unfortunately, it seems that the LinkItemCollection property does not support personalization(like ContentArea does) and I can't just change it to ContentArea property, because there is a lot of content already using this LinkItemCollection.

Is there a way to add personalization feature to this property? Or some kind of workaround?

Thanks!

#190692
Apr 16, 2018 10:29
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You could make the content you add to the LinkItemCollection accessible only to users with specific roles?

#190693
Edited, Apr 16, 2018 10:54
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You can loop through the linkitems in the collection I guess, get the contentdata with 'IContent item = linkItem.GetContentData<IContent>();' and check the access?

#190698
Apr 16, 2018 12:21
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Old blog post but worth reading and exploring.

https://world.episerver.com/blogs/Anders-Hattestad/Dates/2011/6/How-to-make-Property-LinkCollection-use-Visitor-Groups/

If nothing works then try converting the property to contentarea & write a small rountine to get all the content from linkitemcollection and put it into new contentarea. It should be pretty simple.

#190702
Apr 16, 2018 12:45
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Hi. In the link you send, he seems to be using a old episerver version, do you know if his example still works for newer versions?

#190703
Apr 16, 2018 12:57
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#190704
Apr 16, 2018 12:59
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hi,

honestly I don't think you should go that path as approach Anders used is out-dated already to put in that way. I would recommend to to convert to content area (if possible) and personalization there is out-of-the-box.

#190790
Apr 16, 2018 22:14
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Hi. I think you are right, I guess I will have to either convert it to a ContentArea or wait on Episever to add this feature to the LinkItemCollection :)

#190875
Apr 18, 2018 8:36
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