topic Re: Group permission administration in Alfresco Archive

Group permission administration

silverhoof — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:41:27 GMT

In alfresco system, the group can be added through admin user interface but where can I configure the ACLs of the group.The only way I see now is to edit permissionDefintion.xml file. Is there any hidden administration feature to let user configure group permission through user interface?

Re: Group permission administration

afaust — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:03:12 GMT

Hello,

you don't configure the ACL of a group in Alfresco, rather the ACL of a node, where you can assign a permission to a group in that specific context. This can be done via the manage permission action on documents and folders in Alfresco Share Document Library and Repository views.

In the permissionDefinition.xml, the base permissions are defined. This should not be tampered with, rather you create your own configuration file (for new permissions) and add it to the Alfresco system via a Spring-configured bootstrap.

Regards
Axel

Re: Group permission administration

artol — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:46:17 GMT

If I want one group to be consumer in one folder in document library and other group to be consumer in other folder. Both folders are in same site. How this can be done? I am new to alfresco so sorry, if this is a dump question.

Thank you for any help.

Re: Group permission administration

afaust — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:45:12 GMT

Hello,

in a normal Share site without customizations or without resorting to a hack via Repository view, this is not possible. You can only manage the permissions of the "consumer", "contributor" etc. site groups on different folders within a site. What it seems you need as a functionality is the ability to define specific, use-case oriented groups of members in a site and manage permissions for them (instead of the role-based default groups). This is an extension we once did for a customer and relatively simple (relatively from our perspective of an Alfresco partner), but requires some coding / modification.

Regards
Axel

Re: Group permission administration

silverhoof — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:48:33 GMT

Hello,

in a normal Share site without customizations or without resorting to a hack via Repository view, this is not possible. You can only manage the permissions of the "consumer", "contributor" etc. site groups on different folders within a site. What it seems you need as a functionality is the ability to define specific, use-case oriented groups of members in a site and manage permissions for them (instead of the role-based default groups). This is an extension we once did for a customer and relatively simple (relatively from our perspective of an Alfresco partner), but requires some coding / modification.

Regards
Axel

Can you share some knowledge on how do develop this extension?
Because I am still new to alfresco, and this feature is vital for us to deliver our collaboration solution.