J, I think we're talking about two different things.

I'm talking about the MODES in the control panel, top left of most DNN pages (VIEW/EDIT/LAYOUT).

Even if you have Edit permissions, if you are in VIEW mode, iseditable will always be false.

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You are looking at the right property. If the user has EDIT permissions based on the ROLES, AND they are in EDIT mode in the control panel, IsEditable will be true.

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Hi,
I guess I need both approaches. However, the ModuleConfiguration is null although CategoryMenu inherits from CategoryBase which inherits from PortalModuleBase or UserModuleBase. what implementation am I missing to get the ModuleConfiguration in the control bbayt:CategoryMenu? The ShopMenu is in the Module Controls with view permissions if I replace it with CategoryMenu directly it is working. However, I would like to have a ShopMenu which can be build of various controls. I do however not know how to get the ModuleConfiguration not being null.

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="ShopMenu.ascx.cs" Inherits="bBayt.DNN.Modules.ShoppingEngine.Controls.UI.ShopMenu" %>
<%@ Register assembly="System.Web.Extensions" namespace="System.Web.UI" tagprefix="asp" %>   
<%@ Register TagPrefix="bBayt" TagName="CategoryMenu" Src="~/DesktopModules/bBaytShoppingEngine/Controls/UI/CategoryMenu.ascx" %>
<bBayt:CategoryMenu id="categoryMenu" runat="server"/>

Second, is the BreadCrumb which also using this rendering. It is a skinobject which cannot inherit from my CategoryBase either. So I also use same approach there:
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="BreadCrumbSkinObject.ascx.cs"
Inherits="bBayt.DNN.Modules.SkinObject.Controls.UI.BreadCrumbSkinObject" %>
<%@ Register Src="~/Desktopmodules/bBaytShoppingEngine/Controls/UI/BreadCrumb.ascx"
TagName="BreadCrumb" TagPrefix="bBayt" %>
<bBayt:BreadCrumb ID="BreadCrumb" runat="server" />

Same problem with ModuleConfigation being Null, but a skinobject has no moduleid (e.a. permissions). So that scenario does not work and the breadcrumb cannot render similar items as the categorymenu. Right?

J.