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Unlocking a page with system user

  • February 8, 2019
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Hi,

While coding a WorkflowProcess implementation, I need to create a "system user" who can unlock pages.

Pages are locked through a WorkflowSession on a previous workflow step.

How can I give the "system user" the permissions to unlock pages?

Obviously I don't what to use an admin session, and I'm wondering how can I grant unlock permissions in AEM Security Permissions tab!

Thank you,

Lir

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Best answer by Gaurav-Behl

I'd read a thread somewhere which I'll try to find again & post here. It mentioned that 'page.canUnlock()' won't work but 'page.unlock()' will.

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smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008
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February 9, 2019

"Can't I use the unlock() method of com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page ?"

You should be able to use this method while getting a session of a system user that has read/write privileges of this part of the AEM JCR.

Keep in mind - you cannot use a SYstem User to manually perform tasks. A system user is used in code.

I will test this use case.

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lirAuthor
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February 8, 2019

1- an AEM user initiates my custom workflow on a page

2- my WorkflowProcess implementation code, locks the page under the initiator session. This means that the initiator owns the lock of that page.

3- on a further down workflow step, my code needs to unlock the page, but the AEM user completing the step is not the same user as the one who owns the lock.

Therefore I have to manually (not programmatically) already have created a system user with permissions to unlock ANY page, AND have my code unlock the page under his session.

    Gaurav-Behl
    Gaurav-Behl
    New Participant
    February 8, 2019

    that's even a better approach!

    I assume that you don't plan to create a system user on the fly and then assign permissions to it programmatically? Could you share your requirements/solution approach if you are plan to go down this path?

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      lirAuthor
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      February 8, 2019

      Thanks for the reply,

      Can't I use the unlock() method of com.day.cq.wcm.api.Page ?

      I already use Page's lock() method to lock it.

        Gaurav-Behl
        Gaurav-Behl
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        February 8, 2019

        The system user should be created as a read/write service user which means the user would have read/write access to that content path/ specific nodes.

        For unlocking the pages, the service user would simply delete specific properties on that content node.

        Properties for locking/unlocking:

        cr:lockIsDeep

        Boolean

        true

        jcr:lockOwner

        String

        <username>

        jcr:mixinTypes

        Name[]

        mix:lockable

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