Enable Anonymous access to search results.

I am working on one task to display list items using a display template to anonymous users. I have also made the managed search property safe for the anonymous user, but it is still not working for the anonymous user.

Out-of-the-box, the search results webpart (via display template) will try to display data to users (anonymous and authenticated users); authenticated users will see results, while anonymous users will see no results.

Here I will use the PowerShell script to allow list-level anonymous access.

	#
	# Description:
	# List-Level Permission settings to enable anonymous access.
	#
	# Created Date:
	# v1.0 - 20-03-2018
	#
	# Author:
	# Vikas Bansal
	#
	Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
	$listName = "TestList"
	$web = Get-SPWeb “http://sp2013.com”
	$list = $web.Lists.TryGetList($listName)
	if($list -ne $null)
	{
	Write-Host $listName " exists on the" $web.Title at URL $web.Url -ForegroundColor DarkBlue -BackgroundColor Yellow
	if(!$list.HasUniqueRoleAssignments) {
	$list.BreakRoleInheritance($true)
	}
	#$list.AnonymousPermMask = $list.AnonymousPermMask -bor ([int][Microsoft.SharePoint.SPBasePermissions]::ViewFormPages) #binary or adding the permissions
	$list.AnonymousPermMask64= $list.AnonymousPermMask64 -bor ([int][Microsoft.SharePoint.SPBasePermissions]::AnonymousSearchAccessList) #binary or adding the permissions
	$list.Update()
	Write-Host $listName " permission is changed for anonymous user" $web.Title at URL $web.Url -ForegroundColor DarkGreen -BackgroundColor White
	}
	else
	{
	Write-Host $listName " not exists on the" $web.Title at URL $web.Url -ForegroundColor Yellow -BackgroundColor Red
	}

view raw PowerShell_EnableAnonymousAccessOnList.ps1 hosted with ❤ by GitHub

The commented AnonymousPermMask property, according to MSDN, is deprecated and you need to use AnonymousPermMask64.

Instead of ViewFormPages, we need to use AnonymousSearchAccessList, which is described as "Make content of a list or document library retrieveable for anonymous users through SharePoint search. The list permissions in the site do not change".

Then run a full search crawl.


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