Navigation IViews

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have a scenario in my project.

I have users divided on the basis of Regions, each Region have 5 folders. So I have created 5 navigation Iviews to point to each folder. Similarly there are 20 Regions (containing 5 folders each).

The user from Region1 should not see the files uploaded from the users belonging to Region2 and soon.(So i have created separate folder structure for each Region in KM reposatory).

Now do I have to create 20 Regions x 5 folders = 100 Navigation Iviews in this case or is there any alternative ?

Please guide me on this.

Thanks in Advance,

Pavan

[Former Member]

Dear Pavan,

if I get you right, then you do not need to write any code to do that. The navigation iView checks the permissions when it displays a folderstructure and filters out the folders you are not allowed to see (unless you are a superadmin, see last line of this post). So in the example of Raghu and Lorcan the users will only see the folders they have permission for.

e.g. from Raghu and Loran:

You point the navigation iView to the path /documents

You have the user groups: Region 1, Region 2, Region 3

Folder structure below /documents is: /documents/Folder1, /documents/Folder2, /documents/Folder3

On Folder1 the group Region 1 has Permission and on Folder2 the Region 2 and so forth.

When logging on with a user belonging to Region 1, the user will only see the path /documents/Folder 1 in the Navigation iView.

To make sure that works, verify that all users of Region 1 are no super administrators because if they are, they are implicit permission owner and see everything.

Regards,

Fabian

[LJB]

Hi Pavan,

As suggested by Raghu, you need to assign your users to groups or roles and define strict permissions on each region folder for these groups or roles.

E.g. User groups: Region 1, Region 2, Region 3

Folder structure: /documents/Folder1, /documents/Folder2, /documents/Folder3

Assign all users read permission on the /documents folder but then just assign the specific groups permissions on the subfolders. So give Region1 group of users read permissions to /documents/Folder1 and no permissions on Folder2 or Folder3.

This way you can have one iview pointing to /documents which all users can access but the users will only see the subfolders depending on which group they belong to.

Regards,

Lorcan.

[Former Member]

Thanks for the quick reply,

Is there a way to pass the Path parameter (/documents/folder1.... etc) to navigation Iviews @ runtime? so that i can write a code to find out the logged in users Regions and then pass the suitable folder path to Navigation Iview.

-Pavan

[former_member206159]

Hi,

I don't see anyother way of doing this. you have to create a separate role for each user group for each region.

Raghu