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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Product Master
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 14, 2017

Enhancement of security model with m-n Access control group - Object relationship

Current security model allows only ACG - Object One-to-many relationship. This means that it is impossible to allow different users to access different items in catalog since all the roles will have the same Selections assigned via ACG.

We propose ACG-Object many-to-many relationship. That would allow to create multiple ACGs for single catalog and in that ACGs assign multiple Selections. That would achieve that 2 or more user would have access to the same catalog but depending on their role they would be able to work with different items.

This approach means much more granular access policies, since Access Privileges are not enough since you would have to use many Attribute collections and in many cases you want to even hide the fact that some of the items/categories etc. exist from part of the users.

To sum it up we would like to have ACG-Object many-to-many relationship which would allows us to control granular access to items/categories within one catalog. Some sort of screen that would control the assignment of the objects to ACGs would be also very helpfull. Currently there is NO way how to tell
which ACG has which object assigned.