Alfresco Permission Issue

[adit_patel]

Hi,
I installed Alfresco 3.4 and created a folder in below manner as user 'admin'

Parent Folder A1
Child Folder B1 of A1
Child Folder B2 of A1
Child Folder C1 of B1
Child Folder C2 of B1

Consider that all folders have unchecked the inheritance flag.
There is a user 'test' which is granted read access on Folder C1 & C2

Now when user 'test' logs in there is no way for user test to navigate to Folder C1 & C2. I need to search for Folder C1 and then I could access this folder only through search results page.

Is this a limitation of Alfresco Explorer???? OR there is a way to provide auto-read access to parents of folder C1 & C2

[mehul1511]

What is it that you are trying to do? Can you frame it correctly!

I doubt there is any limitation to alfresco as lot of the times i get stuck and later find out the answer!

Mehul Patel

[andy]

Hi

If you can not read the parents of a file or folder to which you have access you can not navigate to it.
You can find it via search. You can create a secondary link to the files that you can follow.

If we were to automatically add permissions then we could expose documents the user did not intend to be seen ….

I think you can add this behaviour via policies if you want it.

Andy