[Zope-CMF] Workflow and permissions

[Dieter Maurer]

robert wrote at 2004-1-16 00:50 +0100:
>On Thursday 15 January 2004 23:55, David Chandek-Stark wrote:
>> I have a CMF site (Zope 2.6.2/CMF 1.4.2) and recently found that a large
>> number of documents appeared to have "reverted" to their initial
>> workflow state ("private"). I'm using the default workflow (Simply
>> Publish / Review policy) and I don't understand what happened. Also, it
>> appears that anonymous site visitors can view the private content.
>>
>> Stumped,
>> David
>
>Unfortunately this is easy to explain. portal_workflow has a button labeled 
>"update security settings". This sets all objects in a CMF/Plonbe site that 
>are controlled by a workflow to the setting as its state defines. Therefore 
>all adjustements you did are reset.

This applies only to permissions and not workflow states.

"Update security settings" brings the "permission-role" association
of objects in line with the permission mapping defined for its
current state.

-- 
Dieter