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Defining a new Role to just add content

jlabuelo — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:47:28 GMT

Hi allI am designing a new Role for my Alfresco installation, so all users that belong to a group with this Role will be able to Read - Update- Write -Add - Lock -UnLock… all possible actions for a conent (document), but I dont want this role to be able to create rules for the space, or manage users

Re: Defining a new Role to just add content

jbarmash — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:35:48 GMT

Can you try to set targets to your permissions. As you can see in permissionDefinitions.xml, most of permissions relate to a type. You should try to constrain your AddChildren permissions to a type, say cm:folder. If it works the way I think it does, that should have the effect you desire.

Something along the lines of:

<permissionGroup name="AddChildrenFolder" expose="true" allowFullControl="false">
           <includePermissionGroup type="cm:folder" permissionGroup="CreateChildren"/>
           <includePermissionGroup type="sys:base" permissionGroup="LinkChildren"/>
      </permissionGroup>
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Let us know if this works out for you.

If this does not work, you may have to go one level lower - to file public-services-security-context.xml, and start changing even lower level permissions on the NodeService.

Re: Defining a new Role to just add content

jlabuelo — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:36:48 GMT

Thanks jbarbash

Will try this right the way and let you know. Just a question, when you say

You should try to constrain your AddChildren permissions to a type, say cm:folder.

where can I find the types used for this configuration, so I can perform other changes?

also if I perform this change, as the AddChildren is related to a folder, is not like letting create subspaces instead of conent??

Thanks a lot again

Re: Defining a new Role to just add content

jbarmash — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:16:39 GMT

Where can I find the types used for this configuration, so I can perform other changes?

You can examine the alfresco models in [exploded war]\Web-INF\classes\alfresco\model (i.e. contentModel.xml, etc). Also, Node browser can be very helpful to understand what's really going on as far as relationships between nodes.

also if I perform this change, as the AddChildren is related to a folder, is not like letting create subspaces instead of content??

here I am not sure about specifics, sorry.