[Phpgroupware-developers] Document storing system / ACL question

[Peter J. Weyers]

Hi there,

In case anybody is interested: I'm writing a kind of document
storing system, which runs in phpGroupWare. It might not become a real
App, since I'm paying not attention to make it compatible
with PHP3 and properly won't test it on other databases then mysql.

I hope to find time to make a tar file public available soon.
Features are:

 A Document contains a Title, description and optional several
downloadable files and is owned by exactly one user.
 Each document can be asociated with a group. ACLs can be defined for
users and groups on specific documents, all document belonginge to a group
or all documents.  Right now, it's using its own categories. There are
general ACLs for maintaining categories as well. 

Talking about ACLs, I have a question regarding the meaning of the fields:

Is it legal (i.e. within the sepcification of the api) to use arbitrary
strings in the 'acl_location' field in the phpgw ACL database tables for
my app?

Are there further ACL types planed? I'd like to see something like
- PHPGW_ACL_VIEW, which allows to see the title of an entry, but not the
  details
or 
- PHPGW_ACL_ADMIN which would give grant special adminstrative rights
  within an app, but no admin rights for all phpGroupWare.

Cheers,

Peter
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