topic Custom Role to view only the properties of a document and not the content in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-role-to-view-only-the-properties-of-a-document-and-not/m-p/310930#M264060 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm new to Alfresco, and our company would like to have a user permission that would allow a user to view only the properties of a document and not the content.&nbsp; So far, the only way I could think of is to create a custom role, so that any user with this role will only be able to read the properties of all documents in a folder.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the custom role that I have added in permissionDefinitions.xml</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;permissionGroup name="ReadProps" allowFullControl="false" expose="true"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;includePermissionGroup type="sys:base" permissionGroup="ReadProperties"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;includePermissionGroup type="sys:base" permissionGroup="ReadChildren"/&gt;<BR />&lt;/permissionGroup&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now users with this role get to view only the properties of a document.&nbsp; The problem is they cannot search for any document within the space.&nbsp; They have to know the location of the document beforehand and navigate to the folder, and there click on details to view the properties.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there any way to make the documents searchable to these users without making their content readable?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Adding "ReadContent" to the permissionGroup would make the documents searchable, but then their contents would be readable also.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help will be greatly appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Anton</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Dec 2013 05:42:27 GMT antonv 2013-12-04T05:42:27Z Custom Role to view only the properties of a document and not the content https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-role-to-view-only-the-properties-of-a-document-and-not/m-p/310930#M264060 Hi,I'm new to Alfresco, and our company would like to have a user permission that would allow a user to view only the properties of a document and not the content.&nbsp; So far, the only way I could think of is to create a custom role, so that any user with this role will only be able to read the propert Wed, 04 Dec 2013 05:42:27 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-role-to-view-only-the-properties-of-a-document-and-not/m-p/310930#M264060 antonv 2013-12-04T05:42:27Z Re: Custom Role to view only the properties of a document and not the content https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-role-to-view-only-the-properties-of-a-document-and-not/m-p/310931#M264061 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Are you using alfresco share or alfresco explorer ?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Dec 2013 08:03:02 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-role-to-view-only-the-properties-of-a-document-and-not/m-p/310931#M264061 yogeshpj 2013-12-04T08:03:02Z Re: Custom Role to view only the properties of a document and not the content https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-role-to-view-only-the-properties-of-a-document-and-not/m-p/310932#M264062 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>-anton</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 06 Dec 2013 03:39:44 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-role-to-view-only-the-properties-of-a-document-and-not/m-p/310932#M264062 antonv 2013-12-06T03:39:44Z