topic Allowing non site managers to use &quot;inviteNominated&quot; in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/allowing-non-site-managers-to-use-quot-invitenominated-quot/m-p/292414#M245544 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>I am fairly new to Alfresco and could not find an answer to my question on the forums. My problem is the following:</P><P></P><P>I'm building an application on top of Alfresco. In this application, some users have the right to invite external users to a site. In order to do this, I have written a webscript which uses the "inviteNominated" function. This function works well as long as the user calling the webscript is a Site Manager but does not work when he is not (as expected).</P><P></P><P>My first solution was to mark the webscript with runas="admin" but this does not seem to work. Indeed, when running the script as an admin, the user is able to do most things (create a new user, set permissions, ...) but it would appear the inviteNominated function still denies access despite the runas="admin" marker. I get the following error message:</P><P></P><P></P><P><EM>org.alfresco.service.cmr.invitation.InvitationExceptionForbidden: 11010032 "Current user, x, is not a Site Manager for site: y"</EM></P><P></P><P></P><P>My current solution is to temporarily add the user to the SiteManager group for the site in question with :</P><P></P><P><EM>people.addAuthority(siteManagerGroup, person);</EM><BR /><EM>site.inviteNominated(...);</EM><BR /><EM>people.removeAuthority(siteManagerGroup, person);</EM></P><P></P><P>This works but it feels less than ideal since during the (arguably small) time the webscript is running the inviteNominated function, the user is actually a site manager, which I would like to avoid.</P><P></P><P>Is there a better way to solve this problem ?<BR /><BR />Thank you in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:46:32 GMT baplac 2016-12-01T16:46:32Z Allowing non site managers to use "inviteNominated" https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/allowing-non-site-managers-to-use-quot-invitenominated-quot/m-p/292414#M245544 Hello,I am fairly new to Alfresco and could not find an answer to my question on the forums. My problem is the following:I'm building an application on top of Alfresco. In this application, some users have the right to invite external users to a site. In order to do this, I have written a webscript Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:46:32 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/allowing-non-site-managers-to-use-quot-invitenominated-quot/m-p/292414#M245544 baplac 2016-12-01T16:46:32Z Re: Allowing non site managers to use "inviteNominated" https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/allowing-non-site-managers-to-use-quot-invitenominated-quot/m-p/292415#M245545 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>There is no way to extend that privilege to users outside of the site manager role. This is a business restriction programmed into the invitation service and not actually related to permission which is why it does not work simply by putting runAs=admin in there.</P><P></P><P>Really the only option to achieve this would require replacing the invitation service implementation with something custom, which certainly is too much effort to be worth it.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:28:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/allowing-non-site-managers-to-use-quot-invitenominated-quot/m-p/292415#M245545 afaust 2016-12-01T20:28:24Z