Programmatically apply permissions to sub-items

Aruna_Tata

 Hi,

Is there any inbuilt package that I can use to apply permissions programmatically to sub-items in a folder in one transaction? I want the permissions to ripple down through all levels, not just the immediate sub-level of the folder.

 

- Aruna

Appu_Nair

in Oscript I like using the two objects found here

LLIAPI:LLIApi Root:APIObjects:NodeCrawler

also

LLIAPI:LLIApi Root:APIObjects:NodeCrawlerCallBack

there is even a PermsNodeCrawlerCallback that I see

These two are extremely cool objects that can do Node Traversal.Most OT code uses these for long running operations.Typically you tell it a starting dataid,a gulp size and it will return the nodes to you.You also have cool things such as Volume and ParentID implementation where perhaps you don't want volumes to be considered and such like.Start with the example on the documentation.I use these a lot when I have to manipulate huge structures.

Another not so elegant way is to look at the implementation of the SetObjectRight livelink API call.Basically it will update the first node and call this function

result = $LLIAPI.NodeUtil.ApplyPermsToSubNodes( retVal ) and that may be what you are looking for as well.I have used that as well.