Even with a well-thought-out security policy, it can be difficult to remember exactly what rights a user or group has to a particular entry in Laserfiche–especially when you take inheritance and group membership into account. Laserfiche provides a tool for quickly viewing the effective rights that a particular trustee has to a folder or document, which you can use to verify that the correct rights have been set, to check whether a user has access to something, or to troubleshoot security problems.
To view a user’s effective rights, select the document or folder you want to check, right-click and select “Access Rights.” Go to the “Effective Rights” tab. By default, the dialog will display the effective rights for the trustee you are logged in as; to view the rights for another trustee, click “Choose” and then pick the trustee from the list. If a right has a check in the “Granted” box, the user has that right; if it is cleared, they do not have that right.
This dialog takes into account all entry access rights that affect this trustee and this folder. That means that entry access rights inherited from group membership will be reflected here, as will entry access rights inherited from farther up the folder tree. Note, however, that it does not take into account other types of rights. For example, if a user has the “Bypass Browse” privilege, they will be able to browse the contents of a folder even if they do not have the “Browse” right displayed; if a user does not have the “Delete” feature right, they will not be able to delete documents even if they have the “Delete Entry” access right.
- Important: You must have the “Read Entry Security” entry access right to view this dialog.
