Need to have a Role based security access to Device Editor section at Presentation page

Question

I need to configure Role-based access for the Placeholder settings section, how to achieve this?

Any suggestion would be helpful.

Answer 1

Thanks @Marek, your suggestion got worked out.

• Check DeviceEditor control (sitecore\shell\Applications\Layouts\DeviceEditor\DeviceEditor.xml)
• Change CodeBeside to your custom class inheriting from the original Sitecore.(Shell.Applications.Layouts.DeviceEditor.DeviceEditorForm)
• Overwrite OnLoad method to hide PlaceholdersTab from the DeviceEditor.xml

Here is the custom logic to restrict the access to specific role:

public class DeviceEditorForm : Sitecore.Shell.Applications.Layouts.DeviceEditor.DeviceEditorForm
{
    protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
    {
        Assert.ArgumentNotNull(e, "e");
        base.OnLoad(e);
        if (!Context.ClientPage.IsEvent && Sitecore.Context.User.IsInRole(ContentAuthor))
        {
            Placeholders.Visible = false;
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

As far as I remember there is nothing like that out of the box

You would need to:

• check DeviceEditor control (most probably it's sitecore\shell\Applications\Layouts\DeviceEditor\DeviceEditor.xml)
• change CodeBeside to your custom class inheriting from the original Sitecore.Shell.Applications.Layouts.DeviceEditor.DeviceEditorForm
• overwrite OnLoad method to hide PlaceholdersTab from the DeviceEditor.xml.