topic Alfresco groups hierarchy/permissions in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-groups-hierarchy-permissions/m-p/290679#M243809 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Can someone explain to me, or point me in the right direction (documentation), why group hierarchy works like it works.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>To be more precise, if I have a:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>- group called TOP LEVEL</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- one group called GROUP ONE under TOP LEVEL</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- one group called GROUP TWO under TOP LEVEL</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>when applying permissions to a node, the following is true:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>- take a node, add permissions to TOP LEVEL group, people in sub-groups also see it (so downwards hierarchy)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- take a node, add permissions to GROUP ONE, people in TOP LEVEL and GROUP TWO also see it (so, upwards, downwards, hell all kind of hierarchy going on here)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The second behavior is totally unexpected from my point of view and renders hierarchy totally useless, this is like admin permissions to everyone.</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:27:40 GMT lista 2013-06-19T20:27:40Z Alfresco groups hierarchy/permissions https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-groups-hierarchy-permissions/m-p/290679#M243809 Can someone explain to me, or point me in the right direction (documentation), why group hierarchy works like it works.To be more precise, if I have a:- group called TOP LEVEL- one group called GROUP ONE under TOP LEVEL- one group called GROUP TWO under TOP LEVELwhen applying permissions to a node, Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:27:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-groups-hierarchy-permissions/m-p/290679#M243809 lista 2013-06-19T20:27:40Z Re: Alfresco groups hierarchy/permissions https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-groups-hierarchy-permissions/m-p/290680#M243810 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>the second behavior is not supposed to occur (and does not occur in all versions I've used so far) when there is no overlap of memberships, i.e. a user from top level / group two is NOT included in group one as well.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What kind of permission are you setting / testing? What are the ACL settings before you change it (including inherited permissions / permissions for pseudo group EVERYONE)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Axel</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:55:37 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-groups-hierarchy-permissions/m-p/290680#M243810 afaust 2013-06-19T22:55:37Z