topic Re: Allow consumers to comment in Alfresco Forum

Allow consumers to comment

mikepriest87 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:17:57 GMT

Is there a standard way to allow Consumers (repo permission) the ability to comment on documents?We are trying to extend the default Consumer role so that Consumer users can create comments. We have added the following code to our permissionDefinitions.xml but to no avail.permissionDefinitions.xml&l

Re: Allow consumers to comment

douglascrp — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:03:01 GMT

Check the following thread https://community.alfresco.com/thread/212273-howto-custom-permissions-in-alf-community-50d#comment-708911

It is old, but I believe it is still relevant for what you are trying to achieve.

Re: Allow consumers to comment

mikepriest87 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:18:36 GMT

We have also tried replacing the default permissionDefinitions.xml file also. Either we just get errors that CreateComment is not available for sys:base or cm:content and just adding the following to the file gives Access Denied using the REST call for adding comments.

<!-- CUSTOM CREATE COMMENTS -->
<permissionSet type="fm:discussable" expose="selected">
    <permissionGroup name="CreateComments" extends="false" expose="false" />
    <permissionGroup name="ReadComments" extends="false" expose="false" />
    <permission name="_CreateComments" expose="false" >
        <grantedToGroup permissionGroup="CreateComments" />
    </permission>
    <permission name="_ReadComments" expose="false" >
        <grantedToGroup permissionGroup="ReadComments" />
    </permission>
</permissionSet>
<permissionSet type="cm:cmobject" expose="selected">
   ...

   <permissionGroup name="Consumer" allowFullControl="false" expose="true" >
       <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="Read" type="sys:base" />
       <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="CreateComments" type="fm:discussable" />
   </permissionGroup>

Re: Allow consumers to comment

mikepriest87 — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 07:27:54 GMT

Gave up and just created a separate role instead of trying to extend Consumer

Re: Allow consumers to comment

sychel — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:44:02 GMT

Hello Mike,

Can you tell me how you created this separate role? Especially how you grant (what) permissions to this role?

Thanks in advance