topic Re: Authorization Levels to Tasks in Alfresco Archive

Authorization Levels to Tasks

fcauti — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:36:51 GMT

Hello,I have to define the access policy of my workflow where some tasks have to be editable by a group, only readable by another and hidden to the others.So, I need not only the concept of assignee of tasks, that is normally read/write mode, but also the concept of viewer.I do not find in the API h

Re: Authorization Levels to Tasks

fcauti — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:23:02 GMT

Maybe is there the possibility to add an IdentityLinkType? An then use it in TaskService.addGroupIdentityLink(..)

I guess I will have to extend some API classes

Regards
Federico

Re: Authorization Levels to Tasks

jbarrez — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:34:03 GMT

The link type is a string, so you can pass in whatever you want.
And you can always fetch the identity links for each tasks yourself.

Re: Authorization Levels to Tasks

fcauti — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:32:43 GMT

Thank you for the answer.
I will try using TaskService methods addGroupIdentityLink and getIdentityLinksForTask passing and retrieving custom strings.

I think this is a good test on framework flexibility (at least about this aspect)

Federico