topic Re: Custom New User Creation in Alfresco Archive

Custom New User Creation

ivo_costa — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:46:08 GMT

HiI'm trying to make some changes to Alfresco, so that when a new user is created, a notification eMail is sent to the user with his username and password. And Later I may try to set the password randomly.I've been trying to find a easy way to do this, but until now I only got the idea that I must c

Re: Custom New User Creation

zaizi — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:08:45 GMT

Would suggest that you adding an extra step to new user creation wizard which asks the admin to confirm the email to send out. This is similar to email option when you invite a user to a space. This gives the admin the option to customise and add any comments to the email.

This is assuming you are only creating users through the wizard.

Re: Custom New User Creation

ivo_costa — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:53:46 GMT

thanks for the suggestion zaizi i really appreciate it but unfortunately I can find the steps definition for NewUserWizard
I've tryed to take a look at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Customising_The_Create_Content_Wizard but there's no NewUserWizard definition in web-client-config-wizards.xml

and so I'm still stuck :?

thanks for your reply

Re: Custom New User Creation

zaizi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:34:51 GMT

This is the new user wizard configuration from web-client-config-wizards.xml. What version of Alfresco are you using?


         <wizard name="createUser"
               managed-bean="CreateUserWizard"
               title-id="new_user_title"
               description-id="new_user_desc"
               icon="/images/icons/new_user_large.gif">
            <step name="person-properties"
               title-id="person_properties"
               description-id="new_user_step1_desc">
               <page
                  path="/jsp/users/new-user-wizard/person-properties.jsp"
                  title-id="new_user_step1_title"
                  description-id="new_user_step1_desc"
                  instruction-id="default_instruction" />
            </step>
            <step name="user-properties" title-id="user_properties"
               description-id="new_user_step2_desc">
               <page
                  path="/jsp/users/new-user-wizard/new-user-properties.jsp"
                  title-id="new_user_step2_title"
                  description-id="new_user_step2_desc"
                  instruction-id="default_instruction" />
            </step>
            <step name="summary" title-id="summary"
               description-id="summary_step_description">
               <page path="/jsp/wizard/summary.jsp"
                  title-id="summary" description-id="summary_desc"
                  instruction-id="new_user_finish_instruction" />
            </step>
         </wizard>
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Re: Custom New User Creation

ivo_costa — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:18:29 GMT

My mistake… I was looking for NewUserWizard… I'll look for createUser
I'm using alfresco 2.2E…

edit: still can't find it
I was looking forward to make this as an additional step instead of a behavior

thanks

Re: Custom New User Creation

zaizi — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:54:20 GMT

My mistake. In 2.2E the create wizard is defined as an face navigation. It is in ./alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/faces-config-navigation.xml.

The snippet is included below. This means you are going to have to do it the manual way or change it to use the wizard framework. The class that deals with the wizard creation is org.alfresco.web.bean.wizard.NewUserWizard. You'll need to add another step in the java code to do the emailing.


   protected String determineOutcomeForStep(int step)
   {
      String outcome = null;

      switch (step)
      {
         case 1:
         {
            outcome = "person-properties";
            break;
         }
         case 2:
         {
            outcome = "user-properties";
            break;
         }
         case 3:
         {
            outcome = "summary";
            break;
         }
         default:
         {
            outcome = CANCEL_OUTCOME;
         }
      }

      return outcome;
   }
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   <navigation-rule>
      <from-view-id>/jsp/wizard/new-user/*</from-view-id>
      <navigation-case>
         <from-outcome>cancel</from-outcome>
         <to-view-id>/jsp/users/users.jsp</to-view-id>
      </navigation-case>
      <navigation-case>
         <from-outcome>finish</from-outcome>
         <to-view-id>/jsp/users/users.jsp</to-view-id>
      </navigation-case>
      <navigation-case>
         <from-outcome>person-properties</from-outcome>
         <to-view-id>/jsp/wizard/new-user/person-properties.jsp</to-view-id>
      </navigation-case>
      <navigation-case>
         <from-outcome>user-properties</from-outcome>
         <to-view-id>/jsp/wizard/new-user/user-properties.jsp</to-view-id>
      </navigation-case>
      <navigation-case>
         <from-outcome>summary</from-outcome>
         <to-view-id>/jsp/wizard/new-user/summary.jsp</to-view-id>
      </navigation-case>
   </navigation-rule>
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Re: Custom New User Creation

ivo_costa — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:33:13 GMT

Thanks…
I'll give it a try