How to set different permission for Download, View and Print

[cfpatel]

Hi there,

I have setup alfresco 3.0 community. I have few queries in this can anybody help me out in this?
1. I have 3 folders and 3 users, I want to restrict 2 users to download any document from share, they should have access to only view that files and i want to allow 3rd user to download and print any document.
2. I want .DOC, .CHM files also shown in flash player only. it should not ask to download this files.
3. I wanted to upload big structure of files and folder in bulk, how can I do it?

Thank you in advance

[ssaravanan]

This is one of the functionalities which we have worked for a client….
You can edit the Permission Model to set up new permission like 1. downloading 2. just viewing alone 3. for printing
Create groups specific for those permissions
You need to customize the download servlet to make a check whether user permission is one of the above, if so
not let them download it…..  
you may need to edit the share UI to include those new permissions and make the download links not viewable

[cfpatel]

Thank you very much for your prompt reply.
Please guide from where to edit permission model. What if we customize and new version comes up with some new features, can we upgrade?

[ssaravanan]

The file you need to edit for permissions is permissionDefinitions.xml (http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13385#p44098)
For bulk upload of files and folder , you might need to use either CIFS or FTP or webdav….

[cfpatel]

I will check the same, Thank you.

For bulk upload, even I have all data on server it self which i want in alfresco, is there any alternate to add it to document library?

[mikeh]

For bulk upload, even I have all data on server it self which i want in alfresco, is there any alternate to add it to document library?

Use FTP or WebDAV to upload into Alfresco.

Thanks,
Mike

[ssaravanan]

Mount Alfresco CIFS using the following script (if you are using linux)

#!/bin/bash

mount -t cifs //localhost/alfresco /mnt/alfresco -o username=admin,password=admin

then use rsync to copy your data from server to Alfresco's mounted CIFS folder
or xcopy if you are on windows

[cfpatel]

Thanks, I will try and get back to you with results.