Creating Records Management roles
A permission is the right that a user or group has to access a particular functionality in Alfresco.
Roles and permissions
In order to create very granular control over the types of functionality that users can access within the Records Management system, Alfresco has defined nearly 60 unique permissions.
A role for a user or group in the Records Management system is a collection of those privileges. The large number of granular permissions provides very detailed control over the way in which a role can be defined.
Access controls applied to the File Plan
For each of the five Records Management groups that we've already seen, there are a corresponding set of five roles, and there is a one-to-one mapping of each group to a role.
The top-level node of the Records Management File Plan, the rm site documentLibrary node, is secured by applying those roles as access control entries to the documentLibrary node. Children of this root node for the File Plan inherit...
