Disable publishing for language masters pages

[aem-explorer]

Our authors keep accidentally publishing language masters. though they don't get published outside the firewall, we want a mechanism to completely disable publish for language-masters tree

What's the best way to do that and are there existing packages already we can install to enable such capability?

[lukasz-m · Accepted solution]

Hi @aem-explorer, you should use ACLs to set proper level of permissions for author group. This will prevent members of this group to publish pages from language-master tree. In other words Replicate permission should be set only for content tree that are not part of you language-master.

As an example I've modified OOTB content-authors (Authors) group in context of we-retail. This has been done from AEM Security console/view accessible under /useradmin :

You can apply similar configuration for you group(s) against your content.

Here are some useful pages:

• Adobe documentation, that describes User, Groups, Access Rights etc:
  
  • https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/administering/security/security.html?l...
  • https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-65/administering/security/user-group-ac-a...
• Tools that you could use to manage group/users permission via code:
  • AC Tool from Netcentric: https://github.com/Netcentric/accesscontroltool
  • APM from WTT: https://github.com/wttech/APM
  • Sling repo scripts:
    • https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-learn/cloud-service/developing/advanced/s...
    • https://sling.apache.org/documentation/bundles/repository-initialization.html