No download custom role

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supta

We're using Alfresco Community 4.2.c and are in need of restricting some user from downloading document.

From what I learn in this forum and other sources, we can remove/hide download button and document action from specific roles. We have successfully hidden download button and document actions and show them only to specific user with CanDownload permission. We created new role "Viewer" with no download access and added CanDownload permission to default permission Collaborator, Contributor, Editor, and Consumer. The first three work as expected but the last one, Consumer, doesn't. In Consumer the download button is still hidden though it has CanDownload permission.
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Here are what we add to permissionDefinitions.xml

<permissions>
…
   <permissionSet type="sys:base" expose="all" >
…
      <permissionGroup name="DownloadPermission" allowFullControl="false" expose="true" />
…
      <permission name="_DownloadPermission" expose="false" >
        <grantedToGroup permissionGroup="DownloadPermission" />
      </permission>
   </permissionSet>

   <permissionSet type="cm:cmobject" expose="selected">

      <permissionGroup name="Administrator" allowFullControl="true" expose="false" />

      <permissionGroup name="Coordinator" allowFullControl="true" expose="true" />

      <permissionGroup name="Collaborator" allowFullControl="false" expose="true">
         <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="Editor" type="cm:cmobject" />
         <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="Contributor" type="cm:cmobject" />
         <!– Added 18/2/2015 –>
         <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="CanDownload" type="cm:cmobject" />
      </permissionGroup>

      <permissionGroup name="Contributor" allowFullControl="false" expose="true" >
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="Consumer" type="cm:cmobject"/>
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="AddChildren" type="sys:base"/>
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="ReadPermissions" type="sys:base" />
         <!– Added 18/2/2015 –>
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="CanDownload" type="cm:cmobject" />
      </permissionGroup>

      <permissionGroup name="Editor"  expose="true" allowFullControl="false" >
          <includePermissionGroup type="cm:cmobject" permissionGroup="Consumer"/>
          <includePermissionGroup type="sys:base" permissionGroup="Write"/>
          <includePermissionGroup type="cm:lockable" permissionGroup="CheckOut"/>
          <includePermissionGroup type="sys:base" permissionGroup="ReadPermissions"/>
          <!– Added 18/2/2015 –>
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="CanDownload" type="cm:cmobject" />
      </permissionGroup>

      <permissionGroup name="Consumer" allowFullControl="false" expose="true" >
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="Read" type="sys:base" />
          <!– Added 18/2/2015 –>
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="CanDownload" type="cm:cmobject" />
      </permissionGroup>

      <!– Added 18/2/2015 –>
      <!– Viewer cannot download documents –>
      <permissionGroup name="Viewer" allowFullControl="false" expose="true" >
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="Read" type="sys:base" />
      </permissionGroup>

      <!– Added 18/2/2015 –>
      <permissionGroup name="CanDownload" allowFullControl="false" expose="false" >
          <includePermissionGroup permissionGroup="DownloadPermission" type="sys:base" />
      </permissionGroup>
   </permissionSet>

   <permissionSet type="cm:content" expose="selected">
…
      <permissionGroup name="CanDownload" extends="true" expose="false"/>
      <permissionGroup name="Viewer" extends="true" expose="true"/>
   </permissionSet>

    <permissionSet type="cm:folder" expose="selected">
…
      <permissionGroup name="CanDownload" extends="true" expose="false"/>
      <permissionGroup name="Viewer" extends="true" expose="true"/>
   </permissionSet>
…
…
</permissions>
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Any hint or suggestion to this problem is very appreciated.

Thank you.

rachana

Hi Supta,

I also having same requirement. Please let me know how you achieved it?