content_permission

Content Repository : content_permission

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• Overview
• Related Objects
• API

 

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

• Function: content_permission.has_grant_authority

  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 possesses the cm_perm access, or if the user possesses 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

   

• Function: content_permission.has_revoke_authority

  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 possesses the cm_perm access, while the other user does not, or if the user possesses 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

   

• Function: content_permission.permission_p

  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

   

• Procedure: 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

   

• Procedure: content_permission.grant_permission_h

  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

   

• Procedure: content_permission.inherit_permissions

  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

   

• Procedure: 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

   

• Procedure: content_permission.revoke_permission_h

  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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