I did a little more digging following hazimj's suggestion. You can use the global authentication variable on the template (FTL) level to disallow guests from viewing the People page. You need to implement this theme change to template/global/people.ftl:

<#if !(authentication.anonymous)>
PLACE CODE HERE
</#if>

Vinh

Basically, you cuold wrap that IF condition around the entire people.ftl file. You can also add an ELSE clause that will tell guests that they're not allowed to view this page.

Hi Vinh,

I thought I would push my luck and ask another question..

Using the If statement you mention, how would I call the  /template/global/unauth.ftl so that the unauthorised page is displayed when a guest clicks on People?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks very much

Nathan

Hi Vinh,

Thanks for the reply and the suggestions. I have just finished testing the following using the IF/ELSE statement that you suggested..

I implemented the if statement around the people.ftl

<#if !(authentication.anonymous)>
PEOPLE.FTL
<#else>

UNAUTH.FTL
</#if>

I then copied and pasted the code from the  /template/global/unauth.ftl into the Else component of the statement and edited the unauth.ftl content to display a nice message..

So the whole page looks great and performs exactly how we would like it too..

thanks for the great tip and help..

Nathan

I'd like to add that this capabillity will be available in the next major release of Clearspace. For the record the improvement number is CS-4869.

Cheers,

Alex