Document Rights Mangement

[Orjan]

the only way to manage with that is to create a picture of it's contents, then they can view but not download the file itself.

[engr]

You mean to say that there is no way of preventing the user from saving the document on his system once the document opens in his browser?

[engr]

@orjan - how do I accomplish that?

[Orjan]

For the user to view the document, it needs to be downloaded temporarily at first. so that's what is the problem.

To accomplish a picture all depends on what kind of documents we are talking about. one way is to make a batch to print the document to a PDF writer and then save the PDF to images, but there are probably both easier and harder ways to do it as well.

[WingedPanther]

If I am browsing a site, and see content, then the content I see is ON MY COMPUTER in the form it was presented. IE's temporary files are actually copies of all that content, for example. I've been to a few sites that tried to block right-click save. They worked on IE, but FF let me save them anyway.

[abhijit.tannu]

Hi engr,

Most of the standard access control solutions - proposed here or otherwise - will not help you achieve what you are looking for. They are all "perimeter" based access control. They can control the document till the time it is in your database but they can not control what the user does after downloading the document on his machine.

There is a separate class of solutions that allow you to do exactly what you are looking for. This a an upcoming area and it is fairly involved task to accomplish this.

Some of these solutions allow you granular access control in terms of view/print/edit/copy-paste etc. on each document for each user. They even prevent screen grabbing these documents.

FileSecure from Seclore Technology is one such solution that allows you all this and more. It even allows you to change the access permissions (or usage permissions as they call it) even after the file is sent across. Please visit their website for more details on the same.

[scottk]

It sounds like you're trying to recreate Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS). Have you taken a look at that product?

[engr]

Yes,but I need MOSS for that.I was thinking of doing the same with Visual Studio 2005.