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Feature Request advance search security

Security Ideas Search and Retrieval

Updated November 10, 2014

asked on November 5, 2014

I think we could use one more option for the advance search syntax.

I'll like to be able to perform a search looking for certain access rights on the user that performs the search.

For example

{[LF:Security] =”BrsRea-----*”}

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Gian

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replied on November 10, 2014

Hi Rob,

Yes you understood correctly,

In our case we have a repository with around 200000 documents with a certain metadata field.

This documents come from a migration from Alfresco.

Because this documents are being publish into a public portal. We need to make them Read Only for normal users.

When I search for this documents I found that around half of them were already read only. Meaning the security column was showing BrsRea------Del------------------------RAcWAcCOw------------ in 50% of them.

I end up creating a workflow that searches for those 200000+ documents and make them all read only.

But it would have been good to restrict the search and add the string BrsRea------Del------------------------RAcWAcCOw------------ or similar to the query.

Thanks

Gian

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replied on November 10, 2014

Hey Gian,

I really appreciate you taking the time to explain your use case in such detail! I'll pass this along to the developers who can look into rolling this out in an upcoming release!

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replied on November 5, 2014 • Show version history

Hey Gian,

I'm not quite sure what you mean by: "I'll like to be able to perform a search looking for certain access rights on the user that performs the search."

Are you saying that you would like searches done by some user (let's call them "USER A"), to display the access rights that USER A has on the documents and folders that are returned in the search results? How would you plan on using this or what benefits do you expect to get from this? I can see some benefit from adding this feature, but I'd like to hear how this would fit into your processes!

If I have misunderstood, please feel free to clarify below! Thanks!

EDIT: After reading your post again, it sounds like perhaps you're looking to be able to search using Access Rights as a criteria for your search? In other words, return all documents that the searching user has certain rights? An example of this might be: USER A runs a search to find all documents on which he has been grated the READ access right? Is this accurate?

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