topic Property or tag-level security in Alfresco Archive

Property or tag-level security

zulu — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:28:17 GMT

Hi Alfresco community,I'm in the process of evaluating Alfresco as a DM component that we may migrate our existing systems towards. I'll have a few questions as I go forward and it looks this is the place to ask them. If there's a better forum or place, please let me know, and thanks in advance fo

Re: Property or tag-level security

jpotts — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:32:09 GMT

No, you cannot do field-level security out-of-the-box.

On the tag question, yes, you can alter permissions based on a tag change. You'd implement this either with a rule action, which would be configured on a folder and optionally its sub-folders, or with a behavior, which is what I'd suspect you'd want, because behaviors can be bound to policies that fire at a lower level than rules. You'd essentially write a Java class that would watch for tag changes and when one happens, you'd adjust the ACLs appropriately.

Jeff

Re: Property or tag-level security

zulu — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:37:01 GMT

Thanks Jeff, I appreciate the quick response. The property part would be nice but is not essential. The tag change trigger sounds like it will work for what I have in mind.

Chuck