That is a good idea. Thanks, Jeff.
Ross
Ross
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Greenaway" <vantagegroup@...> wrote:
>
> Companies I've worked with have generally found the direction John suggested
> to work well.
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>
> Instead of trying to drive the security from the retrieval side, we set it
> up on the initial storage side. When the file that will become an
> attachment is created, it is stored in a directory location with permissions
> appropriate for that type of attachment. It leverages the network
> permissions they already have to maintain and means they didn't have to
> build something in Vantage.
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> It does require planning it out in advance, so figuring out a standard set
> of subfolders for each project could reduce the administration time. In
> your situation, each time a new project is created, the standard subfolders
> (and permissions) would be set up, ready for attachments to be dropped in.
> When users go to open an attachment, the permissions are already in place.
> It helps greatly if your network security groups mirror your Vantage
> security groups.
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> Regards,
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> Jeff
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> Jeff Greenaway
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> Consulting CIO/ERP Consultant
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> jeffgreenaway@...
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> www.cio-ondemand.com
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> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> rossh777
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:43 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: Attachment Events
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>
> Thanks, John.
>
> I did write up a script that will change file/directory permissions on the
> fly but I am trying to avoid that so they don't get stepped on in the
> future.
>
> The solution will add documents from a dropdown box, as well as let people
> add attachments through the native method, and it auto-copies to a common
> location, creates project id subfolders, etc. Some of the files need
> different security and I was hoping to do it 'behind the scenes' without
> pushing the attachment variations to the user.
>
> Thanks again,
> Ross
>
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> , John
> Driggers <waffqle@> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think it uses a BO to do that. You may be able to wire up a
> handler
> > for one of the grid events. It would probably be cumbersome though and it
> > would need to be repeated for every form.
> >
> > Maybe you could set directory permissions on the share where you're
> storing
> > the docs?
> >
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> > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:03 PM, rossh777 <ross.hughes3@> wrote:
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> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > 8.03.409C
> > >
> > > Has anybody ever applied vantage level security to opening attachments?
> I
> > > am trying to do some security group checking, but when I double-click an
> > > attachment I can't get any adapter to return a method, etc. to hook in
> to.
> > >
> > > Ideally, what I would like to do is check if the vantage user is in a
> > > security group before allowing them to open the attachment.
> > >
> > > Is this possible?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ross
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