topic Re: Inviting new users to web projects in Alfresco Archive

Inviting new users to web projects

jack_jin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:48:26 GMT

Hello,We have a few alfresco servers running Alfresco 3.0C. As the repository got bigger, inviting a user to the web project is taking more and more time! RIght now in one of our bigger repositories (about 100 folders and 200 files), it takes about 15-20 minutes (I'm not exaggerating, it actually

Re: Inviting new users to web projects

mrogers — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:57:19 GMT

If you are adding a manager, what it is doing is going through each asset and adding the user as a manager. It's a known issue, ETWOTWO-892, clearly a bit barmy, and in need of rework. In fact the rework has happened and was fixed in Alfresco Enterprise 2.2 SP3.

Content is not copied to each sandbox, so there's only one instance of each version of your powerpint file. The wiki decribes a sandbox as a "sheet of glass" over your web project. You have the web project underneeth and your sandbox on top. Actually it's even more complicated since your workflow sandboxes are another "sheet of glass" above your author sandbox.

Re: Inviting new users to web projects

janv — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:54:11 GMT

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the feedback. As Mark mentions, this permissions-related issue has been fixed in the latest releases, including also Enterprise 3.1 and Labs 3.2 Preview 1.

Regards,
Jan

Re: Inviting new users to web projects

jack_jin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:43:17 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for the quick and helpful reply! So if I understand correctly, it's a known issue that's documented and fixed.

I've rated both of your replies to be helpful, and thanks for the help!

Jack