topic Re: disable permission inheritance in Alfresco Archive

disable permission inheritance

nick_l — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:51:12 GMT

There are some topic about this issue. Currently, I am using Alfresco 4.2 community version.So far I didn't find any API which can disable the permission inheritance. Typically, the root folder has the (GROUP_EVERYONE, consumer) permission, which I don't want its sub-folders to inherit. I can manual

Re: disable permission inheritance

lista — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:06:00 GMT

How do you mean you haven't found any API supporting this?
You can do this with JS or with Java, you shouldn't have any problems.

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/4.0_JavaScript_API#Permission_and_Security_API

Re: disable permission inheritance

nick_l — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:24:06 GMT

I am using the web service api only.

Re: disable permission inheritance

jpotts — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:33:45 GMT

Currently there is no way to break inheritance using the CMIS API. You must use another approach, such as writing a custom web script that leverages the JavaScript or Java foundation API.

Jeff

Re: disable permission inheritance

nick_l — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:41:06 GMT

I found that in java code, accessControlService.setInheritPermission(predicate, boolean) can break the inheritance.
But it looks like being supported by Alfresco

Re: disable permission inheritance

muralidharand — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:36:03 GMT

Hi Nick,
I used the below code to break the inherit permission for the tag nodes.
In your case, first identify the node, then stop the permission inheritance by setting , node.setInheritsPermissions(false);


 var results = search.xpathSearch("/cm:taggable/cm:mytag");

 for(var i=0;i<results.length;i++)
 {
   var node  = results;         
   node.setInheritsPermissions(false);   
   node.removePermission("Collaborator","GROUP_EVERYONE");
   node.setPermission("Collaborator", "GROUP_MyCustomGroup");   
   node.save();
 }
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Hope this helps you.