topic Re: Don't hand over global rights to folders in Alfresco Archive

Don't hand over global rights to folders

mb1811 — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 08:26:38 GMT

Hi!Seems to me, the german forum is a bit quiet, so i'll try to find an answer here ;-)I set up an folder struckture that fit's to our company, set up rights and made a template by copying that to the repository folder.We do sync our users and groups from Active Directory.Setting up rights in that t

Re: Don't hand over global rights to folders

afaust — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:25:48 GMT

Hello,

yeah, the German forum is very quiet - I was trying to be active for a while (way back in 2012/2013), but after a while without any questions / discussions, I simply forgot to go back there.

Unfortunately, "Create from template" only copies the structures and does nothing with permissions, so the default behaviour triggeres (no local rights and inheritance from parent).

You will have to work with some JavaScript scripting to get this to work the way you want. One option would be to set up a rule on the Sites folder that applies to all sub-folders and triggers on the creation of a new folder. You can put a script into the Data Dictionary/Scripts folder that can be triggered from the rule. This script would then have to check the folder to see if it has been created from a template (that information is not transported otherwise) and then apply the custom permissions.

All of this - so far - can be done without Java programming or server restarts. The only "programming" required is related to JavaScript and usage of the Alfresco Script API.

Regards
Axel

Re: Don't hand over global rights to folders

mb1811 — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:01:20 GMT

Thanks for reply!

It does actually pick up the rights that have been set in the template. When I uncheck the "hand over" checkbox I can see all local rights I set up.

Is there a way to uncheck that box by JavaScript?

Is there any summary / tutorial about what is possible with JavaScript in Alfresco?

Thanks

Re: Don't hand over global rights to folders

afaust — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:51:54 GMT

Hello,

yes, it is possible to uncheck that box via JavaScript. The API is documented <a href="http://docs.alfresco.com/community/references/API-JS-Scripting-API.html">here</a>. You are looking for the ScriptNode API concerning permissions and the setInheritsPermissions operation.

Regards
Axel

Re: Don't hand over global rights to folders

borisstankov — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:18:39 GMT

Hi there,

Would you please be so kind to put a simple step-by-step plan how did you do this? I mean how did you manage to create such a template and then setup the permissions to be specific by this template.

I consider myself new with Alfresco, so I'll need more how-tos in order to learn

All the BEST!