Hi Patricia, I'm not sure if I fully understand what you're trying to do, but both the Calendar and DocList API offer access control features that you may use to assign roles:
http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#AccessControlLists http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#SharingACalendar That being said, user A wont be able to view user B's document until B has granted A permission (reader, collaborator, etc) to the document. Eric On Nov 19, 8:22 am, "Patricia Goldweic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > It would be very convenient if I could get the following behavior working in > my web app: when somebody clicks on a particular link, I assign them > permission to see a certain piece of content that belongs to somebody else > (somebody who wants this to happen, of course). > Unfortunately, from what I understand, it appears that I can > programmatically assign permission over a piece of content ONLY if I log in > as the owner of that content*, but then, it follows that I won't achieve the > desired behavior. Is this an accurate conclusion? > > For more details, I believe I need the following functionality to get this > to work: > - Using AuthSub or an alternate, be able to log in as an admin, and assign > the permissions I need over the content of owner 1 (either a Google calendar > or a Google doc at this point; in the future hopefully also a site) to owner > 2 > > Thanks, > -Patricia > > *: I am assuming that AuthSub is used for this purpose > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Docs Data APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Docs-Data-APIs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
