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Question on Alfresco Business Rules

pm44987 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:30:50 GMT

Hi All,I'm new to Alfresco and I' trying to create a business rule as follows:There are three spaces : dropZone, Contracts, Invoices:Business rule on dropZone is as follows:File names that has "contract" in their name will be moved to Contracts space and similarily Invoice files will be moved.User X

Re: Question on Alfresco Business Rules

invictus9 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:14:42 GMT

Business rules that are triggered by an action of a user operate with that user's credentials.

It is certainly not clear to me when a break occurs, or if one does, in a chain of triggered rules. If a rule moves a document to a folder, which in turn starts up rules which move/transform/etc the document further, are all of the rules running as the originator?

It may be possible in a business rule script to give away ownership to someone who has more privileges. That might make subsequent triggered rules use the new owner's credentials.

Re: Question on Alfresco Business Rules

fpp — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:05:48 GMT

Just tried the scenario by creating a content rule on a dropzone (move to another space for specific file name condition) and tested from share with user that has no right / is no member of move-to site.

Works as long there is no file with the same name - even if the user who uploads the file to the dropzone has rights to the move-to site.

Looks like you might have to use a small script that changes the file name when moving to the move-to space to an unique name (and then run some script there if you need versioning).

fpp