Authorization inheritance in cFolders

Question

Hi !
Is there any way of over-riding the inheritence of authorization in cFolders? In cFolders a lower level element automatically inherits the authorization matrix of the higher level element and I want to prevent this from happening.
Lets say for example I have a folder A with 15 documents inside it. A user User 1 has got read authorization in folder A and so by default he has read authorization in all the documents in the folder. Now suppose I want to restrict his view to only 8 documents out of 15 I'll have to manually set the authorization to none in the rest of the documents. However if a new document gets created in thefolder then the default authorization for that document is read for user 1 as it inherits the authorization matrix of folder A. I want to prevent it from happening.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Debaranjan Hazarika.

Answer 1

Hi Lashan,
1- the definition of auth. object CXF_APPL is following:
This authorization object is for the cFolders application. If a user has authorization for this authorization object, he or she can make administrative settings.
You can use the following field values (for APPL_AREA):
- 'Network_Definition': Setting up the network, for example, absolute URL or FTP server settings
- 'Content_Definition': Setting up cFolders content, for example, adding generic objects; choosing scenarios to use
- 'Layout_Definition': Setting up the cFolders layout, for example, style sheets
The permitted activites are: 02 Change and 03 Display.
2- The definition of CFX_USER is as follows:
This authorization object is for the cFolders application. This authorization object must be assigned to the user who wants to use cFolders.
The user needs the following field value to use cFolders:
USER_TYPE = User (no other values exist)
I hope this answers your question.
Regards,
Silvia