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access control depending on a content item's metadata

prem — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:12:25 GMT

Hi Is it possible to control access to a specific content according to that item's metadata, for example if there is a metadata field called "admin", is it possible to show that item only to the admin user depending on the admin metadata field's value ?Are there any other approaches possible in the

Re: access control depending on a content item's metadata

prem — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:14:50 GMT

Anybody ?…

Thanks.

Re: access control depending on a content item's metadata

prem — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:28:39 GMT

Ok I found the info from these posts

http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=3498
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=573

Re: access control depending on a content item's metadata

andy — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:50:35 GMT

Hi

Yes, a dynamic authority is what you want. You will have to write some Java code for this and wire it up in the config. See the config and code for the "owner" dynamic authority for an example.

Cheers

Andy