search in other group documents

[horace]

Hy Alfresco users!

I am new in Alfresco and I have a question .

If we have two groups of users (group1 and group2) . Every group have his documents.

Users from the group1 can access group1 documents , and can search through group2 documents (in fact through all documents on the repository).
They (group1) can see general search response (links returned) from Alfresco but can not open/read/download group2 documents .
They (group1) can ask for a special request from group2 members clicking on that link , that search returned.
If a member of group2 unblock that document , group1 can read/download/open that document.

Is it possible this in Alfresco , and what do I need to install (Alfresco version and web interface option )?
I have now already installed Alfresco 3.4 .

Thank you for support .

Horace

[lementree]

Hi,

You need to manage this giving/removing read permission from group2 documents

[horace]

Thank you for your answer. But if I give read permmision to group2 (if I do this for search reason) they coud read group1 documents .

[romschn]

In order to have the search results returned to a user, user must have at least read permission on the document.

There is one approach i am thinking of (May not be the best but something to start with) in order to achieve your particular scenario.
1. Users from group1 must have at least read permission on group2's accessible documents.
2. On each document, maintain a custom property say for example - group - which will hold actually to which group it belongs to (this i am mentioning as what i understand from your post that both groups will have their documents)
3. Now need to make a complete customization to show the search result.
   Once a user searches the document, check the group property on document, if it is same as the searching  user's group (group1 user) then show download/read links against that document.
   If the group property on the document is different than current user's group then do not show download/read link for it, instead show ask for approval to view from group2. Once user is approved to view it then show him the download/read link.

You may want to use alfresco share.

[online1000]

You need to manage this giving/removing read permission from group2 documents