Hi, I’m trying to create a package/addon for one of our sites that will allow editors to create a draft link of a page and give this to an external user of the site (doesn’t have a log in to the CMS), which has some security and expiry to it, but hitting a block. I’ve set up a Render Controller th…

It’s a lot harder to do this properly yourself than just using the exact API endpoint that’s made for this :wink: But if you want to try it yourself, you probably need the IPublishedSnapshotAccessor instead of IPublishedContentCache as Umbraco don’t register this one in the DI container directly. A…

I haven’t tried this myself, but it sound like you could use the Content Delivery API for something like this. Content Delivery API | Umbraco CMS Get started with the Content Delivery API.

Thanks for the suggestion Mats. I’d prefer to have something that uses an service in the application. rather than calling an API endpoint to the same application though, if that makes sense. There are certainly times when you can’t get around API requests in controllers (such as linking to a exter…

[image] Ben Stephenson: and give this to an external user of the site (doesn’t have a log in to the CMS) HMO, what if they did have a login. Then you could just automate the built-in preview mode. First create a locked down backoffice user just for previews. Then have your controller log t…

[image] Jason Elkin: First create a locked down backoffice user just for previews. There’s also API users now, might work? <a class="lightbox" href="https://forum.umbraco.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4777606d90eff80a2db7c5ef03782a35fd15ef0e.png" data-download-href="https://forum.umbraco.com/uploads/default/4777606d90eff80a2db7c5ef03782a35fd15ef0e" title="A digital interface shows a "Create" dropdown menu with options "User" and "API User" being selected by a cursor, alongside a user profile card for "Sebastiaan Janssen" who is an administrator with sensitive data access and last logged in on 4/9/2025. (Captioned by AI)">[A digital interface shows a "Create" dropdown menu with options "User" and "API User" being selected by a cursor, alongside a user profile card for "Sebastiaan Janssen…

This is tagged v13. In v15+ but there’s a proper IPreviewService so you can roll whatever logic you want to enable and/or tell Umbraco whether it should be in preview mode or not. :raising_hands::raising_hands::raising_hands: src/Umbraco.Core/Services/IPreviewService.cs contrib …

That is a fantastic solution. You know when you get lost in the forest sometimes because of all the trees :smiley: I suppose for safety/not letting get too far in, we won’t give them access to any of the modules but that would serve the purpose well. To answer the above, it is a V13 site unfortuna…