authorization Element for personalization for webParts (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

Sets the Web Parts personalization authorizations for the current Web application.

<authorization>
    <allow.../>
    <deny.../>
</authorization>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

None.

Element	Description
allow	Optional String element. Adds an authorization rule allowing Web Parts controls access to the mapping of authorization rules. The only allowable values are: Value Description enterSharedScope Indicates if a user or role can enter shared scope. modifyState Indicates if a user or role can modify personalization data for the currently active scope.
deny	Optional String element. Adds an authorization rule denying Web Parts controls access to the mapping of authorization rules. The only allowable values are: Value Description enterSharedScope Denies a user or role the ability to enter shared scope. modifyState Denies a user or role the ability to modify personalization data for the currently active scope.

allow

Optional String element.

Adds an authorization rule allowing Web Parts controls access to the mapping of authorization rules. The only allowable values are:

Value Description

enterSharedScope Indicates if a user or role can enter shared scope.

modifyState Indicates if a user or role can modify personalization data for the currently active scope.

deny

Optional String element.

Adds an authorization rule denying Web Parts controls access to the mapping of authorization rules. The only allowable values are:

Value Description

enterSharedScope Denies a user or role the ability to enter shared scope.

modifyState Denies a user or role the ability to modify personalization data for the currently active scope.

Element	Description
configuration	The required root element in every configuration file used by the common language runtime and .NET Framework applications.
system.web	Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration settings in a configuration file. Contains configuration elements that configure ASP.NET Web applications and control how the applications behave.
webParts	Allows you to specify a Web Parts personalization provider, set personalization authorizations, and add custom classes that extend the Transformer class for use by Web Parts connections.
personalization	Specifies the Web Parts personalization provider and sets Web Parts personalization authorizations.

The following default authorization element is configured in the root Web.config file in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<authorization>
  <deny users="*" verbs="enterSharedScope" />
  <allow users="*" verbs="modifyState" />
</authorization>

The following example shows how to configure authorization settings for a Web Parts control.

<authorization>
  <deny users="*" verbs="enterSharedScope" />
  <allow users="*" verbs="modifyState" />
</authorization>

Configuration Section Handler	System.Web.Configuration.WebPartsSection
Configuration Member	WebPartsPersonalization.Authorization
Configurable Locations	Machine.config Root level Web.config Application level Web.config Virtual or physical directory level Web.config
Requirements	IIS 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0 .NET Framework 2.0 Visual Studio 2005