How to change ownership of a file

I have a workflow which has an author task for the author to create/generate new HTML.

Whenever the author creates a new file, the ownership should be assigned to the Job Owner and not to the author?

[color=Black]I believe teamsite gives the ownership to the user who has created the file and Ownership can be changed by using an external task after the file creation.

But My requirement is when the file is created i.e., when user saves the file, the file should be saved with owner as the job owner instead of the author.

How this can be achieved?

-Ganesh
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TS 6.5, Solaris 8
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Sailesh

Ganesh,

How is the author creating the HTML files?? Are you using the dct to capture and generate html or some external process??

Adam Stoller

I have a workflow which has an author task for the author to create/generate new HTML.

Whenever the author creates a new file, the ownership should be assigned to the Job Owner and not to the author?

[color=Black]I believe teamsite gives the ownership to the user who has created the file and Ownership can be changed by using an external task after the file creation.

But My requirement is when the file is created i.e., when user saves the file, the file should be saved with owner as the job owner instead of the author.

How this can be achieved?

-Ganesh
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TS 6.5, Solaris 8
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Who specified this requirement?
What's the rationale behind this requirement?

I ask because - off the top of my head - this makes no sense, unless the person who created the job is trying to get credit for work they didn't do?

cute_guy

The author is an external vendor who will use the DCT to generate the web pages in Teamsite.

The job owner will be an employee of the company.

Main purpose is the ownership of all files, lies with the employees in the organisation and not with external vendor.

kaalraa

The author is an external vendor who will use the DCT to generate the web pages in Teamsite.
The job owner will be an employee of the company.
Main purpose is the ownership of all files, lies with the employees in the organisation and not with external vendor.

When is your generated files get submitted? It can be changed then using submit.cfg OR else have to write a script to change the ownership of the files.

nipper

I have a workflow which has an author task for the author to create/generate new HTML.

Whenever the author creates a new file, the ownership should be assigned to the Job Owner and not to the author?

[color=Black]I believe teamsite gives the ownership to the user who has created the file and Ownership can be changed by using an external task after the file creation.

But My requirement is when the file is created i.e., when user saves the file, the file should be saved with owner as the job owner instead of the author.

How this can be achieved?

-Ganesh
_____________
TS 6.5, Solaris 8
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Why can't you wait until the submit completes and let submit.cfg do the change ?

Migrateduser

I am not sure if it works or not.

Spoof the TeamSite UI Generate Servlet by using FormAPI to chage the user to Job Owner.

cute_guy

If we have to use submit.cfg then I think the user to whom the ownership has to be changed has to predefined, but the Job owner can be more than 1 user in the system.

Is the following approach correct?

1. Have a event trigger to call a script when the file is created.
2. In the script using the file name of the newly created file and use the iwgetfilejobs CLT to get the JobID of the workflow.
3. Using the JobID get the job owner.
4.Use the solaris (chown) command to change the file ownership from author to job owner.

kaalraa

If we have to use submit.cfg then I think the user to whom the ownership has to be changed has to predefined, but the Job owner can be more than 1 user in the system.

Is the following approach correct?

1. Have a event trigger to call a script when the file is created.
2. In the script using the file name of the newly created file and use the iwgetfilejobs CLT to get the JobID of the workflow.
3. Using the JobID get the job owner.
4.Use the solaris (chown) command to change the file ownership from author to job owner.

This can be one of the option, but the submit.cfg is the better option as IWOV takes care of your file permissions. However, as you said job owner can be more than 1, just define all of them under a single OS group.

I hope that solves your problem.

cute_guy

Each file should be owned by only one user and not by a group...

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kaalraa

Each file should be owned by only one user and not by a group...

Get on with chown command. Smiley Happy

Adam Stoller

If we have to use submit.cfg then I think the user to whom the ownership has to be changed has to predefined, but the Job owner can be more than 1 user in the system.

Is the following approach correct?

1. Have a event trigger to call a script when the file is created.
2. In the script using the file name of the newly created file and use the iwgetfilejobs CLT to get the JobID of the workflow.
3. Using the JobID get the job owner.
4.Use the solaris (chown) command to change the file ownership from author to job owner.

If you're using an iwat trigger on a workflow event - you can probably get most of the information directly from the information passed to the iwat trigger script on the command line - you'll probably have to use a couple of CLTs to decode some of it - but it should be there.

Read the CLT manual regarding iwat triggers for more details.

(I still think this is a questionable requirement)

Migrateduser

Is the following approach correct?

1. Have a event trigger to call a script when the file is created.
2. In the script using the file name of the newly created file and use the iwgetfilejobs CLT to get the JobID of the workflow.
3. Using the JobID get the job owner.
4.Use the solaris (chown) command to change the file ownership from author to job owner.

Yes the above steps works.