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Conference utrop1::linkworks_v3_2

Title:	LinkWorks V3.2 Notes Conference

Moderator:	UTROP1::utotack2.uto.dec.com::TACK_L

Created:	Wed Dec 04 1996
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	145
Total number of notes:	260

116.0. "Revealing names of Personal objects" by KETJE::HAENTJENS (Beware of Counterfeit) Mon Feb 17 1997 17:49

    In 3.0.8, when a (for the current user) searchable object is in a
    non-searchable compound object (e.g. a Personal Folder of someone else)
    then the current user can see the name of that compound with
    AboutTheObject-Location after having found the searchable object.
    
    This seems to be no longer the case with 3.2, where AboutTheObject
    -Location only gives your own locations and -Shares only gives the
    names of the users having a share somewhere. The latter doesn't tell
    you where these users have put the shares.
    
    I hope that this is what engineering wanted. I don't think it is a
    good idea to reveal names of Personal objects to other people.
    
    Of course you can still reveal names of Personal objects by placing
    them inside a searchable compound object (the other way around compared
    to the case mentioned above). Then the user who has found the compound
    just has to double-click it to see all the names of the objects inside.
    
    Ren�.

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116.1 UTROP1::elec6.uto.dec.com::HIELKEMA_M Mon Feb 17 1997 18:04 18

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116.1		UTROP1::elec6.uto.dec.com::HIELKEMA_M		`Mon Feb 17 1997 18:04`	18
	> I hope that this is what engineering wanted. I don't think it is a > good idea to reveal names of Personal objects to other people. Yes, this is what is intended. > Of course you can still reveal names of Personal objects by placing > them inside a searchable compound object (the other way around compared > to the case mentioned above). Then the user who has found the compound > just has to double-click it to see all the names of the objects inside. That is the responsability of the owner. If (s)he does not want the names to be visible for other people, then the objects should not be put into a searchable compound object. In 3.0.8, the owner could not prevent that the names were seen by others. Minne

>    I hope that this is what engineering wanted. I don't think it is a
>    good idea to reveal names of Personal objects to other people.
  
Yes, this is what is intended.

  
>    Of course you can still reveal names of Personal objects by placing
>    them inside a searchable compound object (the other way around compared
>    to the case mentioned above). Then the user who has found the compound
>    just has to double-click it to see all the names of the objects inside.

That is the responsability of the owner. If (s)he does not want the names to be
visible for other people, then the objects should not be put into a searchable 
compound object.

In 3.0.8, the owner could not prevent that the names were seen by others.

Minne