Document Security | Handling user data document-security-handling-user-data

AEM Forms document security allows you to create, store, and apply predefined security settings to your documents. It ensures that only authorized users can use the documents. You can protect documents by using policies. A policy is a collection of information that includes security settings and a list of authorized users. You can apply a policy to one or more documents and authorizes users who are added in AEM Forms JEE user management.

User data and data stores user-data-and-data-stores

Document security stores policies and data related to protected documents including user data in a database, such as My Sql, Oracle, MS SQL Server, and IBM DB2. In addition, the data for authorized users in a policy in store in user management. For information about data stored in user management, see Forms User Management: Handling user data.

The following table maps how document security organizes data in database tables.

Access and delete user data access-and-delete-user-data

You can access and export document security data for users in the databases, and if required, delete it permanently.

To export or delete user data from a database, you need to connect to the database using a database client and find out the principal ID based on some personally identifiable information of the user. For example, to retrieve the principal ID of a user using a login ID, run the following select command on the database.

In the select command, replace the <user_login_id> with the login ID of the user whose principal ID you want to retrieve from the EdcPrincipalUserEntity database table.

select refprincipalid from EdcPrincipalUserEntity where uidstring = <user_login_id>

Once you know the principal ID, you can export or delete the user data.

Export user data export-user-data

Run the following database commands to export user data for a principal ID from database tables. In the select command, replace <principal_id> with the principal ID of the user whose data you want to export.

Select * from EdcPrincipalKeyEntity where principalid = '<principal_id>';

Select * from EdcLicenseEntity where publisherId = '<principal_id>';

Select * from EdcDocumentEntity where id in (Select documentid from EdcLicenseEntity where publisherId = '<principal_id>');

Select * from EdcRevokationEntity where licenseid in (Select id from EdcLicenseEntity where publisherId = '<principal_id>');

Select * from EdcMyPolicyListEntity where principalId = '<principal_id>';

Select * from edcpolicyentity where policyownerId = '<principal_id>';

Select * from edcpolicyxmlentity where policyidref in (Select id from edcpolicyentity where policyownerId = '<principal_id>');

Select * from edcpolicyarchiveentity where policyownerId = '<principal_id>';

Select * from edcpolicysetprincipalentity where principalId = '<principal_id>';

Select * from edcinviteduserentity where principalId = '<principal_id>';

To get complete data about a user in the system, you must access and export data from user management database. For more information, see Forms user management: Handling user data.

Delete user data delete-user-data

Do the following to delete document security data for a principal ID from database tables.