[Zope] confused on permissions and roles

30 Jun 2004

      I have a class that inherits from RoleManager (via Folder).  It
defined additional roles, including 'Administrator'.  I would like the
Administrator to be able to view management screens and create objects
of certain types, but not be able to delete or rename objects of
certain types.

I tried using a ClassSecurityInfo instance as follows (I've removed
the copy/delete objects part for simplicity and am just focusing on
the view management screens part)

class Myfolder(Folder):
    """
    The base folder for the product
    """
    meta_type="Myfolder"
    __ac_roles__=('Manager', 'Administrator', 'Researcher', 'Reviewer')

    security = ClassSecurityInfo()
    security.declareObjectProtected()
    security.declareProtected('View management screens', 'manage')

    # ..snip my methods ...

    security.setPermissionDefault('View management screens',('Manager', 'Administrator'))

But a user with just an Administrator role could not view the
myfolder/manage screen

I also tried using __ac__permissions__

class Myfolder(Folder):
    """
    The base folder for the product
    """
    meta_type="Myfolder"
    __ac_roles__=('Manager', 'Administrator', 'Researcher', 'Reviewer')

    __ac_permissions__= (
        ('View management screens',
         ('manage','manage_main'),
         ('Manager', 'Administrator'),
         ),
        )

with the same result.

In both cases if I visit the Security tab of that folder (as a
Manager) none of the default check boxes for the various roles and
permissions have been altered; ie, the one for "View Management
Screens" still has "Acquire Permissions Settings" checked.

My specific question is, what am I doing wrong?  My more general
question is what is the interplay between using ClassSecurityInfo and
__ac__permissions__?  Should both be set, or should the latter be used
to handle everything?

Thanks,
John Hunter
zope 2.7