topic Restricting visibility of a contant type for groups in Alfresco Archive

Restricting visibility of a contant type for groups

lvs — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:41:04 GMT

Hi everybody, I am using Alfresco enterprise 2.1.I have created a set of content types, and I would like to associate this types to my user groups. I did not find any way to do this, I would like my users to manage (i.e, create new contents or folders) only the content types that are assigned to the

Re: Restricting visibility of a contant type for groups

gavinc — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:56:10 GMT

You're right, there is no way to do this out of the box, your suggestions are spot on, you will need to customise the dialogs and wizards you mentioned.

Re: Restricting visibility of a contant type for groups

lvs — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:14:08 GMT

Thanks Gavinc for your answer!
Laura

Re: Restricting visibility of a contant type for groups

asmita_hardikar — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:21:57 GMT

Hi,

I have similar requirement. can you please share how you implemented the solution?
I am yet not clear on how I can implement the solution by customizing "Add Content" dialog.

My requirement is to allow only SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS to create content of 2 custom content types.

Re: Restricting visibility of a contant type for groups

lvs — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:51:30 GMT

Hi Asmita,

What I did is :
I extended the CreateContentWizard and AddContentDialog beans and rewrote the getObjectTypes() functions in order to retrieve the properties I want to show from a configuration file.
I then add to modify web-client-config-custom.xml in order to make the dialog and the wizard use my new bean.
I also added a new jsp for the addContentDialog as it is not managed as a real dialog and you have to change the bean references directly into the jsp. For this I also had to change the navigation rules in the faces-config.xml.

I hope this help you
Regards
Laura