topic Re: Standard roles vs Site roles in Alfresco Archive

Standard roles vs Site roles

acarpine — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:28:36 GMT

I have some doubts about how to use site roles.I'm not sure to correctly understand when to use the role Consumer Site (sitePermissionDefinition.xml) rather than the standard role Consumer (permissionDefinition.xml).Assuming that the correspondence between these two role types is:Consumer -> Site

Re: Standard roles vs Site roles

mrogers — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:34:10 GMT

There's little difference except that the site permissions are specific to a particular site and may be tied into the share user interface. So for example if share wants to know if you are a site manager it will check the site manager role. If you are using share sites then you should be using the site roles.

Re: Standard roles vs Site roles

acarpine — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:15:19 GMT

Hi mrogers and thanks for your reply.
As I said in my first post I would give to a user both Editor and Contributor role and I think I could use standard roles or define a new site role.
Is there any implication in using the standard roles?