Hi, I've been banging my head for about 2 hours and can't see anything in the forums.

What I am attempting to do is remove the Save, publish to and publish buttons for certain users and I may also want to hide properties.

So far I have created a class and inherited ApplicationBase. I’ve hooked up to the event on ContentControl.AfterContentControlLoad and can see the TabPages and all controls on them.

I can recursively loop though all controls within ContentControl and get anything that implements IDataEditor, the issue is I don’t know where to get the property data for the IDataEditor. The ID of the IDataEditor is always prop_<fieldname> but I could do with more information than this including the integer ID.

Below is a cut down version of the code ...

 Public Sub New()
        AddHandler ContentControl.AfterContentControlLoad, AddressOf ContentControlCreated
    End Sub

    Public Sub ContentControlCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ContentControlLoadEventArgs)
        Dim objContentControl As ContentControl = TryCast(sender, ContentControl)

        If (objContentControl IsNot Nothing) Then
            Dim arrControls() As System.Web.UI.Control = GetControls(objContentControl)
            For Each objControl As System.Web.UI.Control In arrControls
                If (TypeOf objControl Is umbraco.interfaces.IDataEditor) Then
                    With DirectCast(objControl, umbraco.interfaces.IDataEditor)
                        Debug.WriteLine(.Editor.ID)
                    End With
                End If
            Next
        End If
    End Sub

#Region "Controls"

    Private Function GetControls(ByVal Parent As System.Web.UI.Control) As System.Web.UI.Control()
        Dim colControls As New List(Of System.Web.UI.Control)
        ' Get all controls recursivally
        Me.GetControls(Parent, colControls)
        ' Return control list
        Return colControls.ToArray
    End Function

    Private Sub GetControls(ByVal Parent As System.Web.UI.Control, ByRef Controls As List(Of System.Web.UI.Control))
        ' loop through all controls
        For Each objControl As System.Web.UI.Control In Parent.Controls
            Controls.Add(objControl)
            ' recursivally get all 
            Me.GetControls(objControl, Controls)
        Next
    End Sub

#End Region

Many thanks

Andy