Permissions Issues

Lynchy

I am setting up 2 branches in Teamsite 6.5. One with one workarea and one with approx 12 workareas. I want to keep users from each branch from entering the others branch so I have turned on branch security and created 2 windows groups one for each branch and assigned them as the group for sharing. In the branch where we will have 12 workareas. we want all users to be able to view anything from another users workarea but not be able to edit it. The only way I have been able to figure to do this is to create a Workarea named user1 assign user1 as the owne, assign the same group from the branch as the group for sharing and then editing the Windows permissions to read only for that group. That gives the entire group read access but only the owner full edit access.. I just wanted to run this past you guys to see if there is an easier way to accomplish this rather than have to edit Windows ACLs for each Workarea I create in this branch. Thanks in advance for any info you can provide......

13adam13

You should not need to use the group for sharing to allow users to read the workarea.
As long as you do not have

workarea_security=on

, or more appropriately, as long as you have

workarea_security=off

, the users should be able to see the contents of the workareas, but will be unable to edit them.


--Adam Wilson
Senior Programmer