Permissions: Enabling Edit without allowing Save Locally

[petershine]

I am a developer looking for a solution to customize permissions for a role, possibly make a new role.

Usually, Alfresco provides 5 different user roles with different permission for READ, EDIT, ADD, DELETE

In case of using a network drive access through CIFS (or WebDAV), I would like to allow a Contributor to Edit a document locally,
but not to save it outside of the network folder. In other words, you can work on the document, but cannot make another copy of it to be saved elsewhere.

Explaning a specific case in more detail, if an user is assigned to edit a document, he or she will use Microsoft Add-In to access the network folder and open the file. After finishing editing, the editor will save it only at the original folder, not other places by making a copy.

I am looking for a way to configure without touching much of the source. It's preferred to be able to simply fix .properties files or something meant to be configured.

[invictus9]

You would have to modify MS Word to not allow "Save As …". Personally, I don't think this is likely. It is not a property of Alfresco, or the Word addin, to restrict where a document can be saved.

[petershine]

Thank you for your answer regarding MS Office.
It's quite understandable there is certain level of difficulty present in modifying MS Office.

However, is there any solution in OpenOffice? such as requiring to add an extension? by not allowing access without this extension?

At least, if I may not be able to change MS Office or OpenOffice, can I configure Alfresco not to allow download?
Can previewing be modified not to allow content to be copied easily?