topic Re: who can create sites in Alfresco Archive

who can create sites

boneill — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:16:10 GMT

Hi all,Can all users create new sites in share. Managers can manage sites, as in add users, but can I limit the users that have permission to create sites. How do you create a user so that they are a manager?RegardsBrian

Re: who can create sites

mikeh — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:49:54 GMT

Can all users create new sites in share. Managers can manage sites, as in add users, but can I limit the users that have permission to create sites.

Currently any user can create a site; there's no way of limiting this today.

How do you create a user so that they are a manager?

You don't - you grant permissions to a user on a site-by-site basis in the Members page for that Site.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: who can create sites

alexander — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:00:05 GMT

Is it by design? I cant imagine any corporate or managed service provider feeling good about that fact.

Any pointers on what is required to be changed (Java components, Web Scripts) to limit this feature to "Administrators" group?

Thanks
Alexander

Re: who can create sites

mikeh — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:41:56 GMT

The easiest way would be to put a user/permissions check in an overridden copy of "sites.post.json.js" in the Repository.

Mike

Re: who can create sites

alexander — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:56:12 GMT

Thanks Mike

Alexander

Re: who can create sites

boneill — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:01:31 GMT

Thanks mike. Is this something that is on the Roadmap for future.

Regards

Re: who can create sites

mikeh — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:21:37 GMT

Not currently: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Roadmap

…but please feel free to suggest it as an Enhancement in JIRA.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: who can create sites

jtp — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:39:14 GMT

I would vote for it.

Re: who can create sites

alexander — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:46:12 GMT

According to Mikes's suggestion, placing the code below into "<alfresco dir>/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/site/sites.post.json.js" solves the problem:


function main()
{
   
   //Code below is added to check if user has administrator permissions
   if (person == null || !people.isAdmin(person))
   {
      status.setCode(status.STATUS_BAD_REQUEST, "Site creation is not allowed, your have to be an  Administrator");
      return;
   }

   // Get the details of the site
   var shortName = json.get("shortName");
   if (shortName == null || shortName.length == 0)
   {
      status.setCode(status.STATUS_BAD_REQUEST, "Short name missing when creating site");
      return;
   }

   // See if the shortName is available
   var site = siteService.getSite(shortName);
   if (site != null)
   {
      status.setCode(status.STATUS_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, "error.duplicateShortName");
      return;
   }

   var sitePreset = json.get("sitePreset");
   if (shortName == null || shortName.length == 0)
   {
      status.setCode(status.STATUS_BAD_REQUEST, "Site preset missing when creating site");
      return;
   }
   
   var title = json.get("title");
   var description = json.get("description");
   var isPublic = json.getBoolean("isPublic");
   
   // Create the site 
   var site = siteService.createSite(sitePreset, shortName, title, description, isPublic);
   
   // Put the created site into the model
   model.site = site;
}

main();   

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Re: who can create sites

ednargocat — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:46:06 GMT

I can't find that … i only have bootstrap and mt directories in the extension directory.

Re: who can create sites

alexander — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:51:08 GMT

You need to create missing directories

Re: who can create sites

ednargocat — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:53:41 GMT

I do have it here: Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts\org\alfresco\repository\site

Do I put it there or create the other directories?

Re: who can create sites

alexander — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:28:35 GMT

You can put it there - it will work, but in case you re-deploy Alfresco WAR changes may be lost.