Control the visibility of commands in the Content tab

You can control the visibility of commands in the Content tab of Active Workspace when dealing with intermediary objects. You can use the AWC_AlternateSelectionCommandsList preference to configure the visibility of commands. You can also use Access Control Lists (ACLs) in Access Manager to manage user permissions for tasks like copy, edit, and cut.

Because Active Content uses intermediary objects to represent their underlying objects in the Content tab, when you select one of these objects, you're actually selecting the intermediary object. Any declarative functionality, like conditions for example, are based on that selected intermediary object. However, there are many times when you will want the declarative client to base its decisions on the underlying object instead. Command visibility is the most common example of this.

Active Workspace provides the AWC_AlternateSelectionCommandsList preference to tell Active Content which commands must consider the underlying object instead of the intermediary object when determining their visibility. All commands listed by this preference will look to the target object of the selected object instead of the selected object itself when determining whether it is visible.

The shipped commands that are already available in the Content tab are already added to the preference. As an administrator, you can check them before adding new commands.

As an administrator, you can use Access Control Lists in Access Manager to control the access to perform tasks, such as copy, edit, and cut. For example, you can provide the engineering group with copy access to an item.