Menu Entry Options for "Who Can See This Item?"

Menu Entry Options for "Who Can See This Item?"

When creating a new navigation menu entry or editing an existing one, there is a field called "Who can see this item?"
  • Go to Website / Navigation / select a menu entry to Edit.
The Options include the following:
  1. Anyone can see it (Always shown)
  2. Only users that are logged in can see it
  3. Only users that are logged in and are members can see it
  4. Only users in the following group(s)...
  5. Only those that are NOT logged in can see it
  6. Only users that have dashboard access can see it

#3 and #6 limit access to only members or only admins, although it bears noting that these are not security features, only navigation features. In other words, marking a menu with "only users that are members" won't actually protect the content that menu points to - it just controls whether or not the menu is seen. In a lot of cases that's okay, but if the user happens to know the URL of the content that menu would point to, they could still view it by typing it in the URL bar of their browser.

#4 allows you to restrict access based on the Group that has been defined. Find more information in the article, Using Groups to Restrict Access to Content Pages & Navigation.

#2 and #5, allows you to be able to add two menu entries - one that only presents for logged OUT people and one that only presents for logged IN people. Then, based on whether the user is logged in or not, a different menu will display.

Scenario:
  • One entry, called "Log In" that points to either an open forms page (that is set to require authentication) or points to /login.  Set this to only show if the user is logged out.
  • A second entry, called "Registration" that points to open_forms, but only displays if the user is logged in.
  • A third entry, called "Log Out" that only shows if the user is logged in and points to /logout.


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