Bug 107812

Summary: Workflow alerts spam users regardless of whether they have permission on the item
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Enterprise CMS Reporter: Daniel BerrangĂ© <berrange>
Component: otherAssignee: Scott Seago <sseago>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Jon Orris <jorris>
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2003-10-23 10:17:16 UTC
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Description of problem:
The workflow alerts system sends email alerts to all users assigned to a
workflow task regardless of whether they have edit permission on the item
associated with the workflow. The recommended (and only feasible) way of setting
up CMS is to have a single workflow & assign all users &/ roles to appropriate
tasks & then control access with folder permissions. So in the common scenario a
workflow task may have 100's of assigned users, only 5-10 of whom actually have
permission to edit the item. The workflow alerts will spam all 100 users rather
than the 5-10 whom can actually do something about the alert. Thus the CMS
alerts system is essentially useless in a typical deployment.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create two users
2. Assign both users to 'author' role
3. Create two folders
4. Give folders custom permissions, so each user created in step 1 can only
access one of the folders
5. Create an item in one folder
6. Complete the authoring task
    

Actual Results:  Both users are spammed

Expected Results:  Only user with permission on the folder is spammed

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Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2003-10-23 10:19:47 UTC
We fixed this in London 5.2-dev branch at p4 33198.


Comment 2 Scott Seago 2003-12-18 19:41:02 UTC
There is one issue with the fix at 33198. Filtering is done based on
CMS_EDIT_ITEM permissions only. This is the right permission for
Authoring and Approval tasks. Deploy task needs to filter on
CMS_PUBLISH_ITEM permissions

Comment 3 Archit Shah 2003-12-18 22:25:04 UTC
merged 33198 with the modification suggested in comment 2 on dev
(change 38960) and 6.0.x (change 38961)