topic Strange behaviour of PermissionService? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/strange-behaviour-of-permissionservice/m-p/176566#M129696 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am using the PermissionService in my project.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I usually code-manage (I am talking about Java code) the permissions, and then use the native web frontend to check the changes.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have noticed a strange behaviour when managing the WRITE_PROPERTIES permission on a FOLDER node.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>These are the steps performed by my code on the node.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- disable "permission inheritance".</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- set READ_PROPERTIES with ALLOWED=true for a certain user, let's say user "A"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- set WRITE_PROPERTIES with ALLOWED=true for user "A"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now, if I login with the user "A", I can see the properties, but I cannot edit them</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The only way I have to edit the node properties is to add an additional step to the flow:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- set WRITE_CONTENT with ALLOWED=true for user "A"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now, maybe I have misunderstood the meaning of the permissions, but, I am pretty sure that a FOLDER node does not have the CONTENT property.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Is it a little bug, maybe in an evaluator, or have I understood nothing about permissions?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for the attention.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:37:39 GMT enrico_it 2008-08-28T16:37:39Z Strange behaviour of PermissionService? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/strange-behaviour-of-permissionservice/m-p/176566#M129696 Hello,I am using the PermissionService in my project.I usually code-manage (I am talking about Java code) the permissions, and then use the native web frontend to check the changes.I have noticed a strange behaviour when managing the WRITE_PROPERTIES permission on a FOLDER node.These are the steps p Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:37:39 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/strange-behaviour-of-permissionservice/m-p/176566#M129696 enrico_it 2008-08-28T16:37:39Z Re: Strange behaviour of PermissionService? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/strange-behaviour-of-permissionservice/m-p/176567#M129697 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is not a strange behavior. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>permissionDefinitions.xml defines "Write"&nbsp; as below</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR /><BR />&lt;permissionGroup name="Write" expose="true" allowFullControl="false"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;includePermissionGroup type="sys:base" permissionGroup="WriteProperties"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;includePermissionGroup type="sys:base" permissionGroup="WriteContent"/&gt;<BR />&lt;/permissionGroup&gt;&nbsp; <BR /><BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>The web client is looking for "Write" to allow a user to edit properties.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>space-details.jsp</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;f:facet name="title"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;r:permissionEvaluator value="#{SpaceDetailsBean.space}" allow="Write"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;a:actionLink id="titleLink1" value="#{msg.modify}" showLink="false" image="/images/icons/edit_properties.gif"<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; action="dialog:editSpace" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/r:permissionEvaluator&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/f:facet&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>This should explain why you are not able to edit the properties with just WRITE_PROPERTIES. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Permission Model is sound. Just the UI will need some changes for your scenario.&nbsp; Please note that Web client doesn't provide you with this granularity in setting just WRITE_PROPERTIES on a node.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Either you make the required changes to the web client code or consider checking against appropriate permissions in your custom UI before you show any edit icon for the properties.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I hope this helps.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Shagul</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:03:07 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/strange-behaviour-of-permissionservice/m-p/176567#M129697 rivetlogic 2008-08-28T19:03:07Z Re: Strange behaviour of PermissionService? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/strange-behaviour-of-permissionservice/m-p/176568#M129698 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have understood perfectly.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I thank you very much for the answer!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Enrico</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:01:56 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/strange-behaviour-of-permissionservice/m-p/176568#M129698 enrico_it 2008-08-29T07:01:56Z