[opencms-dev] OAMP DocCentre limiting access

[Michael Emmerich]

Hello Mark,

> I am looking at various CMS system and have one particular requirement which the DocCentre documentation has not managed to answer for me.
>
> I need to create groups of users and multiple document stores.  One store will be a general store, viewable by multiple (possibly all) groups.  There will then be one or more additional document stores which will contain information that needs to be restricted from general view, so only configured groups and users can see the documents.
>
> Is this possible with the DocCentre module?

The DocCenter uses files and folders in the OpenCms VFS. As you can 
attach permissions for Groups and Users to every file or folder, you can 
restrict access to complete DocCenters, Sub-Areas of DocCenters or 
single documents within it.

> Also, is it possible to point a document store at a given directory on the underlying (would be linux in my case) filesystem?  The reason for this is to simplify file uploads, so I could script the moving around of files, rather than needing to use an authenticated http post method.

No, the DocCenter only works with files in the VFS.
One of the reasons is the permission system of OpenCms I mentioned 
above, only files in the VFS can be controlled with user permissions 
inside OpenCms.




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Kind Regards,
Michael.

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Michael Emmerich

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