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Permissions in Alfresco

sofia — Sat, 23 May 2015 09:42:44 GMT

Hello,I've created two spaces in an Alfresco site : Folder A and 2 Sub-Folders B and C. At the same time I ve defined an hierachy of groups : Group A and 2 sub Groups (B and C).For the Folder A I have invited the group AFor the folder B -> group BFor the folder C -> group C I made some tests:T

Re: Permissions in Alfresco

afaust — Wed, 27 May 2015 06:48:39 GMT

Hello,

for thise use case, you should probably put the users that are member of group A but not B or C into a new sub-group D, which you can then add to the folders B and C. So in the end, everyone has access to folder A because of being an indirect member of group A, only group B and D have access to folder B and only group C and D have access to folder C.

Regards
Axel

Re: Permissions in Alfresco

sofia — Wed, 27 May 2015 16:44:00 GMT

Thank you , I have already tried this , but I need to do it dynamically. Because the structure of my repository is huge , I have many other subFolders of those folders (Under B and C ) and other subGroups of those groups. So I need a dynamic mecanism to accomplish that

Re: Permissions in Alfresco

afaust — Sun, 31 May 2015 11:56:38 GMT

Well - the same thing can be done dynamically. You just need to write the code for it, e.g. using an action or a policy. You can choose to use Java or JavaScript. The basic principle of the advice still holds…

Re: Permissions in Alfresco

sofia — Sun, 31 May 2015 19:23:14 GMT

Thank you M.AFaust for the reply , I m asking you to tell me about the files I need to modify , eventually create , in odrer to accomplish this ? Currently I have no idea about how to start working on this

Re: Permissions in Alfresco

darkredd — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:05:52 GMT

If you are still asking for the files to edit, I would suggest you read-up on a few things first. That being said; I would suggest you take the policy (rule) route which would be much simpler to do. Now, since you want to dynamically assign these groups to your large folder structure; I would assume you have some kind of marker on your folder to identify which group sees which folder. If you write a js file with the logic to assign those groups as suggested by Alex, you can then run a policy using your script to assign your groups.

Re: Permissions in Alfresco

sofia — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:05:46 GMT

Thank you DarkRedd, it seems to be a good way to achieve that. I'll try to create a js file , where I ll use alfresco api for groups and permissions , and then try to give the users of these groups the permissions on the folders