Application-supervised access to managed content

摘要

Application supervised access to managed content is disclosed. In some embodiments, a free form ACL is defined to delegate to one or more users and/or groups of users an access right or restriction a content manage system is not configured to understand and/or enforce. In some embodiments, if a user requests that an application perform an operation with respect to a content item, the application queries a content management system to determine whether the user has been granted the right to perform the requested operation with respect to the content item. The authoring application then allows or disallows the requested operation based at least in part on the information provided by the content management system.

主权项

1. A method of managing electronically stored content, comprising:
receiving at a content management system a free form ACL associated with an application, wherein: 1. the free form ACL permits definition of an access right other than from a set of predefined options, for a specified user; 2. the free form ACL defines an application-supervised access right; and 3. the content management system is not configured to supervise the application-supervised access right defined in the free form ACL; associating the free form ACL with a content item; responding to a query from the application regarding the content item and the application-supervised access right, wherein the response is based at least in part on the free form ACL and an access qualifying data for a session associated with the query based on user credential data; and wherein the application determines whether a user associated with the session is permitted to perform an action associated with the application-supervised access right based at least in part on the response to the query.