Controlling User Access

[genius4u]

Hi,

I am a Newbie here, Alfresco looks very interesting and very easy to use.

One area where I am struggling to get my head around, is the definition of access rules to limit access to the various Spaces. We have the following scenario where we would like to use Alfresco:

a) We would like to give our partners exclusive rights to their own spaces and not to be able to view the spaces of other partners. We also have access to the partners spaces.

b) A space for general access should be available with content for all partners.

Is this possible with Alfresco and how would we define something like this?

Many thanks in Advance

[frederick]

I suggest you do it as follows:

- Create user groups for each of your partners
- Create a space for each partner
- As an administrator, go to the details page of each space and click 'Manage Space Users'
- Uncheck the option 'Inherit Parent Space Permissions'
- Invite the corresponding user group to the space , giving them the 'coordinator' or 'collaborator' role.

The result is an Access Control List on each space.
Eg.
Group 'Partner1' has the role 'collaborator' on the space 'Partner1Space'.

For the generally available space, you could use the same method, inviting all partner groups to the space. Or you can invite the special group 'EVERYONE' to give all your Alfresco users the desired access rights to that space.

Regards,

[genius4u]

Hi Frederick,

Thanks for the quick reply, I will try it out as you suggested.

[schneika]

When i tried to create Content as Contributor in a Contributor-invited space i get the following error:

Operation Failed to set content property on stream closure: node: workspace://SpacesStore/5cea3d4a-11e5-11dc-bfbb-ddaed844db9d property: {http://www.alfresco.org/model/content/1.0}content writer: ContentAccessor[ contentUrl=store://2007/6/3/17/16/5cf2a1bd-11e5-11dc-bfbb-ddaed844db9d.bin, mimetype=text/html, size=17, encoding=UTF-8] System error‍

Whats going wrong?

[andy]

Hi

You are trying to update content on file on which you cna not update properties. You need permission to do both when you update content.

Andy

[schneika]

But i wont update an existing document, i want create a new document in this workspace! The error i got in creation, not update…