Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

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Hi Friends,

In my appliction want to restrict users(with editor access)to edit the document. user with admin role can only be allow to edit the document .

Thanks in advance.

regads

Anand

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Subject: Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

create a reader field and pass the admin role in reader field

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Subject: RE: Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

B Dali,Thanks for your response !!!

But i want to allow others to read only not edit.Reader field will restrict them for read also?

Thanks & Regards

Anand

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Subject: RE: Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

You can create an Authors field add the [Admin] role in it and provide users Author access.

This will show the document to all users, but it will be editable only for editors and users with Admin role.

rg

Rakesh

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Subject: RE: Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

Rakesh,

Thanks for your response!

My problem is that i have to give my user editor access to the database to read and edit general document (created with say first form). but some kind of document (created with say second form) i want to restrict them to edit the document but also i want to allow them to read the document.

     can i restrict them using form event.or any other idia?

Regards

Anand

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Subject: RE: Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

This is where you can use Notes’s flexibile acl.

Just like I said before… you need to give the Author access to all users and [Admin] role only to users who need to edit the second form.

In the first form you create an Authors field with the value ‘*’

This will allow all authors to edit.

In the second form you create an Authors field with the value [Admin]. Only users with Admin role could edit these.

All docs would be shown to all, and users with Editor access will be able to edit all.

rg

Rakesh

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Subject: RE: Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

Hi Anand,

In your case u can use control access section, see the help you can find it.

cheers

RAJ

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Subject: RE: Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

Rakesh & Rajender ,

Thanks for your responses!!

It will work.great .

Thanks again !!

regards

Anand Saraf

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Subject: RE: Restrict user(with Editor access ) to edit the document

Careful. It might keep even editors from changing field values when they opened the document in the front-end with that form. But that’s all.

Editors still have full back-end access to the document. They can e.g. easily right-click any document in a view and change encryption settings or create a $Readers item. They could even restrict read access to any made up name, that doesn’t even exist in your organization. This would make this document effectively invisible for everybody, unless you log in with Full Access Administrator rights.

They might also be able to create their own views and use a form formula in these view, circumventing your access controlled section.

Technically, it is virtually impossible to keep an editor form making any modification to a document. Every attempt is programming against the Notes security concept. If I understand Rakesh correctly, he suggests to first revert your current editors to authors and then apply appropriate Author fields (as they won’t keep editors from editing, of course).