Giving Read Permissions to the Publishing Vault User

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Third, give the user read permissions to published documents:

  1. Open M-Files Admin on the M-Files server used for publishing.
  2. In the left-side tree view, expand a connection to M-Files server.
  3. Expand Document Vaults.
  4. Expand a vault.
  5. Click Named Access Control Lists.
  6. Do one of these steps:
    • Click New Named Access Control List to create a named access control list for the user.
      or
    • Double-click an existing named access control list on the Named Access Control Lists list to edit the permissions of the user.
  7. If you started to create a named access control list, in Name, enter a name for the list.
  8. Click Add.
  9. In Users or user groups, select the user.
  10. Click Add.
  11. Select the user and specify these permissions:
    PermissionAllow / Deny
    Change Permissions Deny
    Delete Deny
    Edit Deny
    Read Allow
  12. Optional: Do this step if your named access control list has all permissions set to Allow for the All internal users user group. Otherwise, skip this step.
    1. Click Add.
    2. Select All internal users and click Add.
    3. In the Users and user groups list, select All internal users.
    4. In the Permissions section, set the All permission to Allow.
  13. Click OK.
  14. Set the named access control list to all documents that you want to be accessed without credentials.
For information on the next step, see Enabling the Login Account to Log In Automatically.