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
  • 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 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

     

  • 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 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

     

  • 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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