Secure 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 table below shows each role and the permissions on the content for that particular role:

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

Invite users to your content

Typically, security and access control rules are defined at the space level. It is not advisable to secure individual content items, as this may...