Harsha - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 6:04 AM:
Hi,
How to restrict the Users to download the file related to a CAD Document.
As per the Permissions given some Users are not able to 'Edit' the CAD Documents, but they can still download the attached files.
Thank you,
Harsha
Eric Domke - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 11:17 PM:
Your best bets are either to edit permissions so that users cannot 'get' the CAD documents (and therefore find and download the files). Alternatively, use server methods associated with the CAD document to update the permissions of the associated files so that only certain individuals can "get" (i.e. download) the files.
[email protected] - Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:55 AM:
Harsha,
my opinion:
because CAD Item Type is a container for files, the permissions on CAD and File should always be the same. Otherwise it would occur that cou are able to access CAD Items and not the attached files.
Also read permission on the CAD Item should result in a read permission on the File Item.
An very interessting question will be: how to setup permission concept when using file items within different other items (Document, CAD, ...). There it would be more difficult to setup permissons on files depending on the "where used" Item.
Regards, Jens
NTT DATA Germany GmbH
globematics - Wednesday, July 17, 2013 4:51 AM:
Eric,
Do you mean by setting the permission not to "get" the CAD document or file attachment, the user will still be able to view (open and see the file) but he cannot download that file to his local system?
Eldo
DavidSpackman - Friday, July 19, 2013 12:09 AM:
Eldo,
Is this what you want to protect against?
David
Eric Domke - Friday, July 19, 2013 8:16 AM:
As mentioned in the link David posted, you cannot prevent a user from downloading any particular file they can view. With regards to CAD Documents in Aras, you have two main options:
- Leverage the can_get option of the CAD Document's permission item. Only users who can "get" the CAD document will be able to see the CAD document's metadata and view/download the associated native and viewable files.
- Use server methods to assign a different permission item to the files associated with the CAD document. By having different permissions on the files versus the CAD document itself, you can allow some users to be able to view the metadata of the CAD document, but not be able to view/download the files. Alternatively, you could allow certain users to view the CAD metadata and view/download the viewable file, but not view/download the native file.
gks by TSI - Friday, July 19, 2013 10:20 AM:
2 can be improved with a viewable_file
the viewable_file contains less information then the native file. Usually it lost all information needed for working with the files.
some common ways to reduce information are:
- merge solids
- reduce accuracy
- replace constraints with absolute positioning
Of course this only works if the user has no access to the original file (native_file)
