Anonymous users denied access to XSL stylesheet

Question

I have a XSLTListViewWebPart on a page and it is linked to an XSL stylesheet located in the Style Library. Anonymous users have read access to the Style Library. When a logged in user views the page, the XSLTListViewWebPart works fine. However, when an anonymous user views the page the XSLTListViewWebPart gives the following error message:

Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource.

This seems to be a permission issue, but anonymous users should already be able to access the XSL stylesheet.

Answer 1

@Matt This issue seems to be a Sharepoint bug. Look at this:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/sharepoint2010customization/thread/3d95f279-91c0-47be-b7b9-3a0f83ff4f8c

Answer 2

Try the DataFormWebpart, can do the same, and works fine for anonymous users. In Sharepoint Designer insert empty data view, choose data source ...

Answer 3

One Possible option is to add xsl inline in xsltListViewWebPart. See this blog here -

http://www.manvir.net/how-to-add-xsltlistview-webpart-to-sharepoint-publishing-page

Answer 4

I had this same issue and managed to resolve it using this solution

I hope this helps someone

Sharepoint 2010 XsltListViewWebPart on site definition template

Thanks

Nicholas