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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Securing your folders


Now that you can create new users, new user groups, and can add new users into groups, it's time to use these. We will now see how we can apply permissions on your folders or spaces and secure them.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Let's create a new folder to learn how to secure your folders. Go to the InfoAxon folder we created earlier, and create a new space named Chapter 3.

  2. 2. Click on the View Details icon of Chapter 3.

  3. 3. In the details interface, click on the Manage Space Users link.

  4. 4. Manage Space Users screen comes up. You will use this interface to manage the users and groups that have permissions in this space.

  5. 5. At this point of time, the list of users is blank. By default, Alfresco only inherits permissions from the parent space.

  6. 6. Inheriting Permission means just duplicating whatever permission settings are there in the parent folder. This is just like inheritance works in typical Object-Oriented designs. You can, however, stop inheriting permissions by de-selecting the...