Resource Visible without being Logged In

er... cached. If I say go left, best to go right and vice verse.

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 07, 2013, 07:15 AM

Hm. That's good to keep in mind. I've always kept my "listing" snippets uncached for performance.

I cheat by using Wayfinder's &excludeDocs to remove any Resource Group Parents (in the global navigation) leaving these cached.

I then use the personalize package to display nothing if the user is not logged in and a chunk (with an uncached Wayfinder call, straight <li>, or @code, or whatever) of the resources they have access to.

This way I keep the majority of the menu cached and reduce Wayfinder's hits on the database or the weight of it processing the resource map.

Quote from: ember1205 at Jun 07, 2013, 07:43 AM

What sort of performance reasoning would drive the use of keeping listing snippets uncached? I would have thought CACHING them would benefit performance.

In this instance it is not about performance. It becomes more about security. There is a situation which can arise which I described https://forums.modx.com/thread/84935/resource-visible-without-being-logged-in#dis-post-468368

I also just wrote how I do a work around in the previous post.