Package com.epicentric.permission

(Deprecated as of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system described in the permissions checking section of Vignette Portal Developer's Guide, available from http://global.vignette.com) Contains classes and interfaces defining what user groups can do to particular objects.

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Package Summary

Interface Summary

Permission	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
PermissionCatalog	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
PermissionCatalogFinder	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
PermissionCatalogItem	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
PermissionContext	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
PermissionContextOwner	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.

Class Summary

GenericPermission	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
GenericPermissionCatalog	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
GenericPermissionCatalogItem	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
MultiCatalog	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
PermissionCatalogContainer	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
PermissionsManager	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.
PermissionUtils	Deprecated. As of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system, described in the section on permissions checking in Vignette Portal Developer's Guide.

Package com.epicentric.permission Description

(Deprecated as of version 4.0, to be removed in 8.0 or later; replaced by a new permissioning system described in the permissions checking section of Vignette Portal Developer's Guide, available from http://global.vignette.com) Contains classes and interfaces defining what user groups can do to particular objects. A number of Vignette Portal objects have permissions associated with them, including PortalBeans, pages, templates, styles, users, and user groups.

For example, PortalBeans have a number of permissions dictating what each user group can do to a particular PortalBean instance -- personalize (edit) it, delete it, minimize it, etc. One instance of a message board PortalBean might allow users of the group "Team Members" to edit the message board, whereas "Team Leads" might be able to edit and delete this PortalBean instance.

Permissions are additive: if members of the Team Leads group also belong to the Team Members group, then Team Leads have the combined permissions of the two groups. Furthermore, because user groups are hierarchical, permissions are inherited: a member of one group has all of the permissions of that group plus the combined permissions of all groups that are above it in the group hierarchy.

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com.epicentric.entity