Rights on categories

[kbonnet]

Hi all,

Does anyone know if its possible to grant a specific user the rights to create categories? We use Kofax release documents into alfresco. Kofax logs in under its own user. When a document is released a script is triggered to generate categories. This user does not have the privileges to do this. My workaround for now is to let the release script log in with the admin user. Not very clean.

So, does anyone know if rights can be granted to other users to create categories?

Thanks in advance!

Koen Bonnet

[jbarmash]

Typically creating Categories is an admin task. 

However, Alfresco allows to create Roles which carry with them a set of permissions, so I suppose this is the direction you should look into.  You could create a role "CategoryEditor" or something like that, and then assign people to that role.  The role is a collection of permissions which are set on a pretty low level.  

Here are some wiki pages that might be relevant:

  http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/PermissionModelDefintionExample

  http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Category:Authorization

I think this should work.   The only issue is that for non-admin users you can't get to the "edit categories" page, so you'll have to provide your own link to it.