12.3 Creating Permission Sets

Security measures need to be in place so that during different stages of the Lifecycle, only certain authorized users working on the content objects get specific permissions or rights to work on the content. Say for example, our custom Lifecycle has four stages:

• Start (when content is being created)

• WIP (short for Work in progress)

• Staging (content under review)

• Approved (content finally reviewed and approved and ready to be shown on the live site)

You may design the ACLs (Access Control Lists or Permission Sets) for each of the Lifecycle stages. For example, during the Staging stage of the Lifecycle, the Administrators, Content Managers, Content Authors, and Web Developer users could have VERSION rights while the owner of the content could be given WRITE rights and the rest of the users (termed "world") could be given READ rights.

Please refer to our earlier discussion of ACLs in Chapter 3 to quickly understand the basic and extended permission levels in Documentum...