Summary
In this chapter, we learned how role-based security is managed for the Alfresco Records Management site. Alfresco has a very rich and very granular permission structure, making it possible to create custom roles that can match the needs of most organizations.
We covered the following topics in this chapter:
How to create Share users and groups
How to add users to roles
How to view the definition of a role, modify a role definition, and create a new role
How to create a User Rights Report
How to assign access controls to parts of the records File Plan
At the end of the chapter, in a "How does it work?" section, we looked in detail at how data webscripts are used to retrieve data from the Alfresco repository for users, groups, and roles. We also saw the definition of the permission model for Records Management and how the individual permissions are bundled into permissionGroups corresponding to the roles in Records Management.
In the next chapter, we will complete our discussion of Alfresco...
