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Provide anonymous user access to single web page

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Posted on by Nerd_Gorilla1

Hello,

My portal restricts access to anonymous users via the Home Page permissions. I have the "I want to choose who can see this page" option set to Authenticated Users only on Home. All other pages use Home as the parent page and inherit these permissions.

I'm now trying to create one specific page that does allow anonymous access. I realize I can break the inheritance permissions for this single page, but when selecting the "I want to choose who can see this page" option, I'm still only able to select the Authenticated Users option because this is the only web role that was included when setting the Home page permissions.

I tried to create a web page access control rule to override this, but I get this error message and it does not work:

Is there any other way I can create a page or even a content snippet that is accessible to anonymous users via a URL? I know the local authentication sign-in and register pages are just content snippets that can be accessed through a URL, so perhaps I could do something similar? Any suggestions?

@oliver.rodrigues @ragavanrajan

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SaiRT14 1,990 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Nerd_Gorilla1,

Go to the Portals Management App. Find the page you want to make accessible to anonymous users. Open the page record and uncheck Inherit Permissions from Parent Page. Under the Permissions section: Select I want to choose who can see this page. Add the Anonymous Users web role.

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Nerd_Gorilla1 31 on at

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@SaiRT14 - Thanks but there is no checkbox in the portal mgmt app on the webpage record to unherit permissions. I checked both the information page and content page options.

This option only exists in the studio editor as shown in my screenshot above.

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RK2021 91 on at

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My suggestion would be to not restrict the home page itself to authenticated users. Instead, the home page should allow anonymous access, but set the access controls as in your screenshot for all the child pages except for the one you have identified as being open to all.

In practice, your home page navigation bar should then have sign in and the open page - with the rest hidden until sign-in.

If you have content on your home page that you wish to restrict to authenticated users, then you can use liquid to check for the users roles and show/hide dynamically.

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Lucas001 2,429 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,

as RK2021 suggested.

You can use liquid to check for different webroles and only show certain buttons, elements etc. when a webrole is assigned to the contact.

As liquid is run on the server those elements should never show.

For security reasons the other pages should still have the restriction for certain webroles, so that anonymous page visits are not a thing.

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