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content_permission

Content Repository : content_permission

 

Overview

Permissions can be set to allow certain users certain things. - They can be compared with the Unix filesystem permission: read, write ...

 

Related Objects

See also: {content_item }

 

API

Determine if the user may grant a certain permission to another user. The permission may only be granted if the user has the permission himself and posesses the cm_perm access, or if the user posesses the cm_perm_admin access.

Author:Karl Goldstein
Returns:'t' if the donation is possible, 'f' otherwise
Parameters:
object_id:  The object whose permissions are to be changed
holder_id:  The person who is attempting to grant the permissions
privilege:  The privilege to be granted
Declaration:

  function has_grant_authority (
    object_id         in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    holder_id         in parties.party_id%TYPE,
    privilege         in acs_privileges.privilege%TYPE
  ) return varchar2;
See Also:content_permission.grant_permission, content_permission.is_has_revoke_authority, acs_permission.grant_permission

 

Determine if the user may take a certain permission away from another user. The permission may only be revoked if the user has the permission himself and posesses the cm_perm access, while the other user does not, or if the user posesses the cm_perm_admin access.

Author:Karl Goldstein
Returns:'t' if it is possible to revoke the privilege, 'f' otherwise
Parameters:
object_id:  The object whose permissions are to be changed
holder_id:  The person who is attempting to revoke the permissions
privilege:  The privilege to be revoked
revokee_id:  The user from whom the privilege is to be taken away
Declaration:

  function has_revoke_authority (
    object_id         in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    holder_id         in parties.party_id%TYPE,
    privilege         in acs_privileges.privilege%TYPE,
    revokee_id        in parties.party_id%TYPE
  ) return varchar2;
See Also:content_permission.has_grant_authority, content_permission.revoke_permission, acs_permission.revoke_permission

 

Determine if the user has the specified permission on the specified object. Does NOT check objects recursively: that is, if the user has the permission on the parent object, he does not automatically gain the permission on all the child objects.

Author:Karl Goldstein
Returns:'t' if the user has the specified permission on the object, 'f' otherwise
Parameters:
object_id:  The object whose permissions are to be checked
holder_id:  The person whose permissions are to be examined
privilege:  The privilege to be checked
Declaration:

  function permission_p (
    object_id         in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    holder_id         in parties.party_id%TYPE,
    privilege         in acs_privileges.privilege%TYPE
  ) return varchar2;
See Also:content_permission.grant_permission, content_permission.revoke_permission, acs_permission.permission_p

 

This is a helper function for content_permission.grant_permission and should not be called individually.

Grants a permission and revokes all descendants of the permission, since they are no longer relevant.

Author:Karl Goldstein
Parameters:
object_id:  The object whose permissions are to be changed
grantee_id:  The person who should gain the parent privilege
privilege:  The parent privilege to be granted
Declaration:

  procedure grant_permission_h (
    object_id         in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    grantee_id        in parties.party_id%TYPE,
    privilege         in acs_privileges.privilege%TYPE
  );
See Also:content_permission.grant_permission

 

This is a helper function for content_permission.grant_permission and should not be called individually.

Grants a permission and revokes all descendants of the permission, since they are no longer relevant.

Author:Karl Goldstein
Parameters:
object_id:  The object whose permissions are to be changed
grantee_id:  The person who should gain the parent privilege
privilege:  The parent privilege to be granted
Declaration:

  procedure grant_permission_h (
    object_id         in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    grantee_id        in parties.party_id%TYPE,
    privilege         in acs_privileges.privilege%TYPE
  );
See Also:content_permission.grant_permission

 

Make the child object inherit all of the permissions of the parent object. Typically, this function is called whenever a new object is created under a given parent

Author:Karl Goldstein
Parameters:
parent_object_id:  The parent object id
child_object_id:  The child object id
Declaration:

  procedure inherit_permissions (
    parent_object_id  in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    child_object_id   in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    child_creator_id  in parties.party_id%TYPE default null
  );
See Also:content_permission.grant, acs_permission.grant_permission

 

This is a helper function for content_permission.revoke_permission and should not be called individually.

Revokes a permission but grants all child permissions to the holder, to ensure that the permission is not permanently lost

Author:Karl Goldstein
Parameters:
object_id:  The object whose permissions are to be changed
revokee_id:  The person who should lose the parent permission
privilege:  The parent privilege to be revoked
Declaration:

  procedure revoke_permission_h (
    object_id         in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    revokee_id        in parties.party_id%TYPE,
    privilege         in acs_privileges.privilege%TYPE
  );
See Also:content_permission.revoke_permission

 

This is a helper function for content_permission.revoke_permission and should not be called individually.

Revokes a permission but grants all child permissions to the holder, to ensure that the permission is not permanently lost

Author:Karl Goldstein
Parameters:
object_id:  The object whose permissions are to be changed
revokee_id:  The person who should lose the parent permission
privilege:  The parent privilege to be revoked
Declaration:

  procedure revoke_permission_h (
    object_id         in acs_objects.object_id%TYPE,
    revokee_id        in parties.party_id%TYPE,
    privilege         in acs_privileges.privilege%TYPE
  );
See Also:content_permission.revoke_permission

 

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