Securing your content

Content can be secured by assigning a role to a specific user (or group) on that content.

User roles for content

Alfresco uses roles to determine what a user can and cannot do with the content. These roles are associated with permissions. The following table shows each role and the permissions for that role for content:

Permissions	Consumer	Contributor	Editor	Collaborator	Coordinator
Read Content	X	X	X	X	X
Read Content Properties	X	X	X	X	X
Copy	X	X	X	X	X
Preview in Template	X	X	X	X	X
Start Discussion		X		X	X
Edit Content			X	X	X
Edit Properties			X	X	X
Apply Versioning			X	X	X
Apply Categorization			X	X	X
Checkout			X	X	X
Update			X	X	X
Take ownership					X
Cut					X
Delete					X

Inviting users to your content

Typically security and access control rules are defined at the space level. It is not advised to secure individual content item as it may become unmanageable with large number of files. It is the best...