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Last Post 02/07/2008 9:03 PM by Peter Donker

Preventing addition of items at DMX root folder

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John Barker

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02/07/2008 7:00 PM
We are running DMX 3 and have called it the Document Library on our web portal. Our intent is to allow authorized individuals to create new FOLDERS (i.e. subfolders) at the root of the Doc Library, but not to add files. Files should only be added to the sub-folders. However I cannot seem to find out where to set this privilege. I can click to the right of any subfolder and set the permissions on it, but I can't click to the right of the root folder and change any permissions. I thought at first that this might be limited to Administrators only, but I can log in as a non-Admin user and get the New Item icon. How do I lock the root folder up so just new folders can be created at that level based on authorizations I define? I can email a snapshot to you if that will help, but I can't add the snapshot here since I can't load it to your server.

Peter Donker

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02/07/2008 9:03 PM
Hi John, This is not possible. For DMX it doesn't matter if the item created is a folder, a file, a hyperlink, or anything else. If a user is allowed to create 'content' that's what the user can do. This is similar to Windows disk permissions. If you want to keep control of permissions the best thing is to define the first set of folders that you need to work with and set permissions yourself and then tell the module (DMX Options) that permissions can only be set by admins. Note that you can create vritual directories in DMX and you can put a DMX instance somewhere else that starts somewhere down the document tree! Some people overlook this. It helps you organize the document tree. Peter

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