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How To Use Security Based On Role, Group And Function

How To showing how to base security on role, group and function.
  • Last Update:2017-05-10
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This document will show how security is implemented using role, group and function including setting up the necessary scripts along with providing examples.

Table of Contents

Create Roles

  • In portal_categories/role define roles needed (our security policy will be based on roles).
  • Create a role that can add new elements (purchases, payments, etc).
  • Create a role that can consult/view elements.

Add Functions

  • In portal_categories/function select action Add Category.
  • Create two functions with explicit Id, Title and Codifaction
  • Example: accountant, Accountant, ACC

Add Users and Assignments

  • In person module, create new persons with assignment, and valid login.
  • In the assignment, set the function of the assignment according to the permissions you want to allow for the given user.
  • Don't forget, a person without a login, a password and an open assignment will not be an user.

Fixing Assignment Lookup Policy

In our example we only use the function to determine the rights of a user. The default is to base on user rights on site and group, too (see getPortalAssignmentBaseCategoryList). To override this default, we need to create a Python script named (to follow the naming conventions) ERP5Type_getSecurityCategoryMapping in portal_skins/custom (or any other folder in the acquisition path) with this content:

## Script (Python) "ERP5Type_getSecurityCategoryMapping"
##bind container=container
##bind context=context
##bind namespace=
##bind script=script
##bind subpath=traverse_subpath
##parameters=
##title=
##
return (
  ('ERP5Type_getSecurityCategoryFromAssignment', ['function'] ),
)

Setting Access For A Given Type

Next we want to restrict access on the Accounting Module. Call accounting_module/Base_setDefaultSecurity to disable security acquisition for the module and then go to portal_types/Accounting Transaction Module/manage_editRolesForm (the Roles tab of the management interface of the Accounting Module Portal Type)

Add Roles For This Module

  • Name: Accountant
  • Role: Assignor
  • Base Category Script: ERP5Type_getSecurityCategoryFromAssignment
  • Category: accountant

This will set the Assignor role to any person with an assignment specifying the accountant function. Once every role definition is added, select Update Local Roles from the actions tab to make sure, the new roles are applied. Repeat this process for every portal type you need.

To verify things worked, try log in with one of the newly created persons using the associated login/password pair and check whether accounting transactions are visible.

Note that if you already had data in your ERP5 instance, you also need to reindex the ERP5 site after managing roles. Otherwise users will have access to objects, but these won't display in listboxes as they are not represented in the catalog in relation to the newly changed roles.

Extending Security A Bit Further

Roles are assigned on a per-type basis and not on a per-object basis. This allows you to set generic rules across all kinds of objects and once they are set, you don't have to change the security settings anymore.

Category

This is the category the user must have to get access permission (like function/ceo)

ERP5Type_getSecurityCategoryMapping

This script tells ERP5 which base category will be used for setting the security policy. You must return every base category list you want to use in the Base Category setting. If you want to grant access based on the location-site OR on based on group and function, you'll have something like that:

return (
('ERP5Type_getSecurityCategoryFromAssignment', ['site'] ),
('ERP5Type_getSecurityCategoryFromAssignment', ['group','function'] ),
)

Base Category

Denotes a list of base categories (space separated) that should correspond to an entry returned by EP5Type_getSecurityCategoryMapping. When a user creates an object, ERP5Security takes the Owner's assignments and sets permissions to people with the same base category.

Base Category Example

If you set a Base Category = group and Category = function/ceo, then the permission will be attributed to the CEO of the Owner's assignment's group. If you omit the Category, only the Owner's properties will be taken into account. If you omit Base Category, the rule will only be based on the specified category (in general, a function). Note that you also specify a list of Base Categories and Category separated by spaces.

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