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Remove all rights from Entry

Workflow Version 9 Security Ideas

Updated August 6, 2014

asked on August 5, 2014 • Show version history

Hi All,

My colleague asked this question some time ago but it appears it never got an answer.

https://support.laserfiche.com/forums.aspx?Link=viewtopic.php%3ft%3d18635%26amp

Basically I want to completely clear all the rights assigned to an entry before assigning some new ones using Workflow. I can't seem to see an obvious way to do this. I can remove rights or assign rights but not completely clear all rights....

Any ideas or am I missing something obvious here?

Cheers!

Basically need something like this http://www.laserfiche.com/SolutionExchange/Article/clear-entry-access-rights-from-an-entry but in workflow...

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replied on August 6, 2014

We had a similar request over in this thread. Basically, you can leverage the "Assign Rights" activity in Workflow to clear rights out, use the utility you listed, or write a small script. There are examples of all three. Most of our tools require that you specify a user or group when you change security rights, so your solution is probably going to be the best bet.

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replied on August 6, 2014

Thanks for the reply Zachary.

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious and to clarify that there isn't an "out of the box" solution that can cater for this scenario.

Having said that can I make a request that this gets considered as a feature request?

Would be nice to be able to clear all access rights on a document and get a 'clean slate' when assigning access rights in workflow. I'm surprised actually that this isn't already included in the current functionality.

Cheers!

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replied on August 6, 2014

The developers have been notified, and I tagged your post with "Feature Request".

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replied on August 5, 2014

I've got around this for now by creating a group that contains all the users apart from Admin & Workflow user. This is sort of an everyone group.

Still it would be nice to know if this is possible.

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