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Returning all 'System' groups for a user

paulf — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:49:35 GMT

Hi everyone,Firstly, please accept my apologies as I seem to only be posting questions to this forum as opposed to helping others. I'm still new to Alfresco unfortunately. I wanted to ask if there is a way to query (either via webscript or Java API) for ALL groups (including system groups) that a us

Re: Returning all 'System' groups for a user

mrogers — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:23:05 GMT

Your requirement may be surprisingly tricky. Since groups can contain other groups.

But if you are looking for a java API the first port of call is the AuthorityService in particular methods like AuthorityService.getContainingAuthorities();

Re: Returning all 'System' groups for a user

paulf — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 07:39:52 GMT

Many thanks for your response. It is very much appreciated. I will have a look into the AuthorityService class and see what I can find.

Re: Returning all 'System' groups for a user

paulf — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:08:13 GMT

Hi all,
Following on from my original post above, I wondered if anyone knows how to go about using the getReaders() method mentioned on the following page:

http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/org/alfresco/service/cmr/security/PermissionService.html

In my current solution I am using a combination of CMIS, Alfresco API and web scripts to do what I need - however, I am interested in this method.

I guess my question is, how do I get the ACL ID that I can use as a parameter with this getReaders() method? Is this something I need to do in Java or is it something to implement in a web script?

Are there any examples of this method in action? I can't seem to find any.

Thanks for your time