Mr. Smith, I only mentioned Generations as our way of allowing a specific version to have separate permissions not something I think is needed in Slide.
Ollie -----Original Message----- From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:02:26 To:Slide Developers Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Structure of history folder Michael Oliver wrote: > I believe that the current permissions on the current version should be > applied to all versions and not the permissions at the time the version > was created. This is how we did it with Livelink and our reasoning at > the time was as follows: > > 1) If a user is removed from access to the current version, this is > usually because the owner of the document wants the content of the > document removed from view for that user (or group). > > 2) If a user is granted access to a document, then all previous versions > are also granted, for a similar reason. > > 3) Access to specific versions without access to all versions was > possible in Livelink with a concept we called "generations" that allowed > a specific version of a document to appear to the system as a separate > "generation" document. > Michael, This sounds fairly reasonable. My suggestions before were not intended as a "this is the way it should work", but more intended as a way to spark some discussion of the possible approaches - looks like it worked :-) The "generations" stuff looks interesting - but somewhat unrelated. I think we can (should) probably implement just 1 & 2 initially. Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent using my BlackBerry 6510 from Nextel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
