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Dashlet permissions error

rockshore — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:09:15 GMT

I've got a non-administrator user who is able to view their 'My Favorites' by navigating to Repository > My Favorites.However, if they then attempt to view them in the My Documents Dashlet on the Dashboard, they get a static 'Loading…' message. Clicking Favorites then invokes the following output

Re: Dashlet permissions error

mikeh — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:20:01 GMT

Could they have favourited a document that lives within a Site whose permission was changed from public to private (or it was private/moderated) and the user has since been removed from the SIte..?

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Dashlet permissions error

rockshore — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:19:19 GMT

Hi Mike,

I have a group called 'Staff' that is setup as the Coordinator of the Site, and all staff members are in this group by way of sub-groups.

i.e. This user is in the Project Manager sub-group in the Staff group.

Also, I have 'EVERYBODY' setup as a Consumer of the Site and all permissions cascade down to child folders within the site.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Dashlet permissions error

rockshore — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:56:41 GMT

This can now be considered fixed.

I applied Coordinator rights to the EVERYBODY group on the top-level site and the error disappeared.

If I want to lock down any folders beneath, I will simply remove inherited permissions and apply a bespoke user group.

However, it does seem rather odd that having the EVERYBODY group setup as a Consumer of the documents/folders in question would allow them to be viewed from the My Favorites [sic] section, but not from the Dashboard My Documents dashlet > Favorites.

Perhaps this disparity could be addressed in coming versions of Alfresco? I'm not entirely sure whether this is a bug or just a feature request, so any advice to forward on would be useful.

Thanks again for your input.

Re: Dashlet permissions error

rockshore — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:23:47 GMT

Hi,

This has reared its ugly head once again since I had to remove 'EVERYONE' permissions from the main repository.

Unless you're a member of the built-in Administrators, you get the following error when attempting to view favourite documents via the dashboard dashlet.

07220026 Wrapped Exception (with status template): 07220775 Failed to execute script 'classpath*:alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/documentlibrary/doclist.get.js': 07220774 Access Denied. You do not have the appropriate permissions to perform this operation.‍

Could this be related to the following bug?

http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-6374

The document in question is otherwise available to everyone in the Staff group I created for the main repository, even as favourite accessed via 'My Favorites'.

I've also seen a similar issue elsewhere within these forums:

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=16818

But the solution isn't applicable to our setup as everything resides on the same server.

Please can someone advise?