How to disable part of page depending on user logged in

Question

Hello All,

Can any one help me by suggesting a good way to disable the "My site", "My Links" and "Welcome XXXXXXX" links for a publishing portal?

I am trying to create a internet facing portal and want to disable them for the viewers.

Thanks for the help!

Grace

Answer 1

When you say you are exposing the Site to internet you will be enabling the Anonymous access. When you enable anonymous access you will not get those links by default. Please refer to this article for enabling anonymous access. And still you want to Security Trim the parts of the page you can make use of the SecurityTrimming control provided by SharePoint.

Answer 2

If you don't want to go through the hassle of defining your own master page then you can also add some JavaScript, e.g. via a Content Editor WebPart, to hide the element that holds the log-in link.

Check out this example.

You may need to repeat this on multiple pages though.