GetSubwebsForCurrentUser()

Question

is there a way to pass a parameter to the GetSubwebsForCurrentUser() function? I'm needing to get the subwebs for specific users - not the current user. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

Answer 1

You can impersonate a particular user, but obviously this involves re-creation of SPSite and SPWeb objects. Thus please use this approach carefully: calling the code from a loop can cause unwanted performance leak.

//get this current user's user token
SPUserToken userToken = web.AllUsers[user].UserToken;

//create an SPSite object in the context of this user
using (SPSite s = new SPSite(siteStr, userToken))
{

    using (SPWeb w = s.OpenWeb())
    {
       // use w.GetSubwebsForCurrentUser() here
    }
}

More details and explanations here: http://blackninjasoftware.com/2009/04/09/how-to-programmatically-impersonate-users-in-sharepoint/

Answer 2

You can impersonate other users when opening an SPSite (and thus a web below it)

SPUserToken userToken = web.AllUsers[user].UserToken;
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(siteUrl, userToken))
{
   using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
   {
    // ...
   }
}

But I would not guarantee the performance if you are looping through many users..