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Beth Mahoneyadm's avatar
Beth Mahoneyadm
Copper Contributor
Oct 22, 2018

SharePoint "Sites" Web Parts - Selected Sites Needs to be Security Trimmed

I have a very real need to show only specific sites in a Sites Web Part. I know this is doable and have been successful. However, the issue is that when I select individual sites, the security trimmi...
  • John_Sanders's avatar
    John_Sanders
    Oct 23, 2018

    This isn't currently a supported capability in the sites web part. In "select" mode you're defining specific sites/links to display. SharePoint displays them. If the user doesn't have access to the site they won't see the tidbits or info about the site (as we do a search query to retrieve that data from the site, as the user), but they'll still see the site as you've specifically chosen to display it. This is similar to modern navigation and quick links. If you choose to display X site, we display it. If the user clicks it, they don't have access to it (of course). Security trimming explicitly added user content would seem to me to be counter-intuitive... not to mention not very performant for page loading (if every link added to every page had to be checked for permissions to simply display the link for every viewer).

     

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