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Published inApr 2016
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Vandana Pal
Vandana Pal
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Vandana Pal

Vandana Pal is a software engineer and author. She currently works as senior consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience working with Enterprise Digital Asset Management and Content Management Systems. She has worked with various deployments of Alfresco in various domains, such as media, finance, and healthcare, for different organizations across the world. She has hands-on experience working with architecture design, performance tuning, security implementation, integration, and the orchestration of complex workflows in Alfresco. She has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering. Her journey in this field began when she started working with different open source technologies and found them interesting. She holds a bachelors of engineering degree in information technology from Gujarat University, India. Vandana has also coauthored Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation.
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Authorizing users the use of content or space


By now, you should know about the permissions and roles in Alfresco. In Chapter 4, Administration of Alfresco, we already learned about how users and groups are created. Once these users and groups are created in the repository, they need to be granted with specific access rights to spaces and content.

In most organizations, you have various departments and subsections within each department, as well as some people who belong to multiple departments.

For example, there are various teams like the HR team, recruitment team, management team, and administration team. Now, some people in the HR team would also be a part of the management team, and the recruitment team is a sub-set of the HR team. So, to organize such a hierarchy, you create various groups and subgroups.

Create a group in Alfresco named HR_Team, Management_Team, Administration_Team, as shown in Chapter 4, Administration of Alfresco. Now create a subgroup named Recruitment_Team under...

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Published in: Apr 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782175032

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Vandana Pal

Vandana Pal is a software engineer and author. She currently works as senior consultant at CIGNEX Datamatics. She has extensive experience working with Enterprise Digital Asset Management and Content Management Systems. She has worked with various deployments of Alfresco in various domains, such as media, finance, and healthcare, for different organizations across the world. She has hands-on experience working with architecture design, performance tuning, security implementation, integration, and the orchestration of complex workflows in Alfresco. She has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering. Her journey in this field began when she started working with different open source technologies and found them interesting. She holds a bachelors of engineering degree in information technology from Gujarat University, India. Vandana has also coauthored Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation.
Read more about Vandana Pal