Question about readers and authors

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Sorry for the simple question but I have searched the forums and the help file and cannot find any clear (to me anyway) answer to my question. I need to understand the “magic” $readers and $authors fields better. I have figured out that you can put a field on a form with the special magic type of “reader” or “author” and doucuments handled by that form will have the access restrictions dictated by it applied to them.

My question is - what about existing documents that have not been touched by the form? How do I put the same restrictions on them? I think that maybe I write an agent to process them which creates a NotesItem with the IsAuthors and/or the IsReaders property set to true. Is this correct?

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Subject: Question about readers and authors

The “magic” fields are normally created using the document (or form) properties dialog (“who can read” on the document properties and “Default read access” for $Readers and “Who can create documents with this form” for $Authors).

Yes, you can create these fields on existing documents with an agent just as you described.

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Subject: RE: Question about readers and authors

Thanks Stan.