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Web Content Management with Documentum

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Web Content Management with Documentum

Overview of this book

One of the world leaders in Enterprise Content Management, the EMC Documentum family of applications helps you manage all types of content across multiple departments within a single repository. With the Web Content Management suite of applications, you can efficiently manage content and underlying processes for your Web properties, and ensures that they are responsive to business needs. To fully realize the power of this system can seem daunting, but this book will help you achieve that. With easy to follow examples, this book will take you the simplest and most straightforward route to success. Along the way, you will learn insights that only a seasoned professional would know. Packed with practical examples, you will get hands-on with the powerful features of Documentum to grow your skills and confidence. You will see tips and tricks to handle complexities of the system, and avoid the common errors that waste your time. From installing and getting started with Documentum, you will see how to design and develop Documentum applications, before rounding off with deployment.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Web Content Management with Documentum
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

3.6 ACL


ACL (Access Control List) forms a part of Documentum's security mechanism to restrict certain groups/users from accessing a particular object. Documentum stores restricted objects as dm_acl objects. Note that all SysObjects in Docbase have an ACL assigned to them.

An ACL, also called a permission set, stores information regarding the groups/ users that have access to a particular object as well as their access levels (or privilege levels).

Keep in mind that the permission levels are hierarchical, which means a permission level of 'READ' for example would grant permission levels above it as well—'NONE' and 'BROWSE'.

Go through the table shown in figure 3.3 to understand the basic access levels available in Documentum:

Permit level (r_accessor_ permit attribute)

Permission

Short Description

1

NONE

No access to the object.

2

BROWSE

User can view the object's attributes but not its associated content.

3

READ

User can view the content as well but not modify it.

4

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