topic Only latest version should be viewable in Alfresco Archive

Only latest version should be viewable

nikes — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:19:15 GMT

Hello folks,I have a requirement in which there are some groups as A,B,C.Group C is having administartor type of writes who can access all features of document.My question is, when a document is updated its version is also incremented and viewable by all. What if I want to restrict users other than

Re: Only latest version should be viewable

nikes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:02:34 GMT

Still waiting for reply………..

please guide…..

Re: Only latest version should be viewable

zaizi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:06:30 GMT

Access controls are defined in tomcat/webapps/alfresco/web-inf/classes/alfresco/public-services-security-context.xml.

Snippet from that file:

<!– =============== –>
    <!– Version Service –>
    <!– =============== –>

    <!– The version service does not have any restrictions applied at the moment. It    –>
    <!– does not use a node service that would apply any permissions.                   –>

    <bean id="VersionService_security" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.AlwaysProceedMethodInterceptor" />

You might want to take a look at that file and read through the following wiki pages;

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Security_Services
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Authorization_And_Access_Control

Or you can just customise the webclient to only display version info for Admins.

Re: Only latest version should be viewable

nikes — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:27:26 GMT

Can you guide how to cutomize client for Admin who can view version history and other users can not?

Re: Only latest version should be viewable

nikes — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:28:49 GMT

Can anyone guide how configure web client to to achieve this?