Hiding content from authenticated users?

Question

I have content that I only wish to display to anonymous users.

Once the user has logged in, I would like to hide it.

Is "Audience Targeting" the right way to do this, and if so, it seems I can only choose 'All Site Users" as the group to target. Is there a specific group I could create that includes ONLY anonymous users?

Answer 1

Possibly the most common approach for dealing with this is to use the ASP.net LoginView control. In your master page/page layout/whatever, simply wrap the markup/controls you wish to display to authenticated/anonymous users in a LoginView control - this will allow you to easily specify who should see what.

Effectively you don't need to do anything 'SharePoint' here - this all works because SharePoint is built on top of ASP.net, and ASP.net knows whether the current user is authenticated or not.

A simplified extract from the MSDN sample at the link above:

<asp:LoginView id="LoginView1" runat="server">
                <AnonymousTemplate>
                    Please log in for personalized information.
                </AnonymousTemplate>
                <LoggedInTemplate>
                    Thanks for logging in 
                    <asp:LoginName id="LoginName1" runat="Server"></asp:LoginName>.
                </LoggedInTemplate>
 </asp:LoginView>