What's the difference between cm:author and cm:owner?

[upforsin]

Hello,

what's the purpose of cm:author if we have cmwner? Is it cm:author a leftover after some old Alfresco versions?

I see many unit/intergration tests associated with it but in main code there is nothing important.

PS. Is there a way to block text autoconversion () to emoji ?

[angelborroy]

cm:author is the public author of the document, so every user in the UI can verify the authority of a document.

cmwner is the technical owner of the document, related to permissions and usually not available in the UI.

[upforsin]

Hi @angelborroy 

but couldn't the cmwner be both public author and technical owner?

cmwner has always a correct value, cm:author only sometimes. What's more, if it is visible, usually it has a None (null) value.

[angelborroy · Accepted solution]

Sorry, the public property in UI like Share is "cm:creator" and "cm:modifier":

https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/master/src/main/resources/alfresco/model/conten...

"cm:author" is an optional property that may or may not be filled:

https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-repository/blob/master/src/main/resources/alfresco/model/conten...