On a mass production environment such as generating monthly
invoices for a telecom company, creating and applying policies that
are specific to each document can become a resource-intensive process.
In such cases, you can use the Rights Management Java API to create
and apply policies that are specific to users, rather than to documents
based on abstract policies. The license generated for a user is
later used for all documents that are accessible to the user.
Using the APIs, you create an abstract policy that is a policy
templates with all policy attributes such as document security settings
and usage rights, except the list of principals. Administrators
can create any number of policies from the abstract policy with
different principals who should have access to the documents. Changes
made to the abstract policy do not affect the actual policies that
are generated from the abstract policies.
In the case of monthly invoice generation of a telecom company,
you create an abstract policy, users, and then generate the licenses
for each user that is later applied to the documents for each user.
You cannot create the abstract policy from the Rights Management
Web pages. You can, however, administer the policies that you create
from the abstract policy from the Rights Management web pages. Policies
that are created using this method are identical in behavior to
those created from Rights Management web pages.
See Programming with LiveCycle for more
information.
