[Zope-CMF] Workflow and permissions

robert robert at redcor.ch
Sat Jan 17 00:56:15 EST 2004


On Friday 16 January 2004 20:49, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> robert wrote at 2004-1-16 00:50 +0100:
> >On Thursday 15 January 2004 23:55, David Chandek-Stark wrote:
> >> I have a CMF site (Zope 2.6.2/CMF 1.4.2) and recently found that a large
> >> number of documents appeared to have "reverted" to their initial
> >> workflow state ("private"). I'm using the default workflow (Simply
> >> Publish / Review policy) and I don't understand what happened. Also, it
> >> appears that anonymous site visitors can view the private content.
> >>
> >> Stumped,
> >> David
> >
> >Unfortunately this is easy to explain. portal_workflow has a button
> > labeled "update security settings". This sets all objects in a CMF/Plonbe
> > site that are controlled by a workflow to the setting as its state
> > defines. Therefore all adjustements you did are reset.
>
> This applies only to permissions and not workflow states.
>
> "Update security settings" brings the "permission-role" association
> of objects in line with the permission mapping defined for its
> current state.

That's true, I did read to quckly.
The Workflow state should not be reset.
Robert




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