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Need to customize Web client UI, but only for Guest user

theorbix — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:46:07 GMT

Hello,I need to customize the Web Client user interface, but only for guest users.Basically, when someone connects to the Web Client as a guest user, I need to disable/hide some UI elements that should still remain accessible to "normal" users.Here are the elements I'd like to remove from the UI:- t

Re: Need to customize Web client UI, but only for Guest user

gavinc — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:20:44 GMT

There aren't out of the box configuration options for this I'm afraid, however, you should be able to do most of it.

You can use the rendered attribute on components defined in the JSP page or our boolean evaluator component to 'hide' stuff. If you look in browse.jsp you'll see the use of the following value binding expression:

#{NavigationBean.isGuest == false}‍

Search the other JSPs for other examples.

Re: Need to customize Web client UI, but only for Guest user

theorbix — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:13:16 GMT

Gavin,

Thanks for the hint. I started modifying the WebClient and some changes are actually very simple.

For instance, to disable - just for the guest user - the "User options" icon in the toolbar, I only had to add the modifier option in the titlebar.jsp page:

<%– user preferences –%>
<a:actionLink value="#{msg.user_console}" rendered="#{!NavigationBean.isGuest}"
image="/images/icons/user_console.gif"
showLink="false"
action="dialog:userConsole"
actionListener="#{UsersBean.setupUserAction}"
id="alf_user_console">
<faram name="id" value="#{NavigationBean.currentUser.person.id}" />
</a:actionLink>

Now I'll look at how to hide the links to the "My Home" space (again, only for the Guest user) from both the toolbar and the navigator pane. Hopefully it should not bee too difficult.

Re: Need to customize Web client UI, but only for Guest user

theorbix — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:16:47 GMT

Oh… by the way: I think this change should be included in the main code stream of the Web Client: when accessing to Alfresco in guest mode, there is no reason at all to show the User Options icon in the toolbar…