Setting Permissions with API starting from Alfresco Search API

DM8800 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:18:31 GMT

Hi,

Situation:
We have a software supplier that is a Contributor to a site, creating a folder structure and putting files.
The user is software_supplier1

Example of the folder structure

- Folder 1 - 1_Extern - 2_Intern - Folder 2 - 1_Extern - Folder 3 - 1_Extern - 2_Intern - 3_Sensitive

There there is another software supplier that only has ALLOWED access to all 1_Extern folder. That part works already. This is done with a separate user for separating users for different tasks.
Example user is modifying_user

ButI thought that if I query that the modifier is software_supplier1 I'm getting only the nodeId's that needs to be checked for permissions and be updated. This works on the the first run. Then the folder modified user is modifying_user.

But when there's a document put in 1_Extern the parent folder is set back to software_supplier1 instead of modifying_user. Thus my query for filtering out the nodeId's for the folders that needs to be updated doesn't work anymore.

{ "query":{ "query":"PATH:'//app:company_home/st:sites/cm:sitename/cm:documentLibrary//*' AND TYPE:'cm:folder' AND NOT cm:modifier:'modifying_user'" }, "paging":{ "maxItems":50 }, "include":[ "permissions", "path" ] }

Are there any hints/tips to get this working or for a better workflow?

Thanks!

Jonathan

Re: Setting Permissions with API starting from Alfresco Search API

LeoMattioli — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:00:34 GMT

My 2 cents: create an Aspect with one property and add it to folder you already worked on.

For example, your aspect is "acme:my-aspect" with property "acme:my-property", you can modify your query with:

"query":"PATH:'//app:company_home/st:sites/cm:sitename/cm:documentLibrary//*' AND TYPE:'cm:folder' AND ISUNSET:'acme:my-property'"

Or, probably, you can search also for folder without the aspect with:

"query":"PATH:'//app:company_home/st:sites/cm:sitename/cm:documentLibrary//*' AND TYPE:'cm:folder' AND (NOT ASPECT:'acme:my-aspect')"

Hope this helps.

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