topic Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization? in Alfresco Archive

Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

gronfelt — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:51:36 GMT

I would like the Share Dashboard to look the same for all new users, could this be achieved? For instance I don't want the users to see Alfrescos RSS feed, but rather my own and I don't want the Alfresco Network dashlet to be shown by default.I suppose that the default dashboard (with My Calendar, A

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

mikeh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:30:03 GMT

Take a look at presets.xml, under the node <preset id="user-dashboard">

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

toml — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:51:08 GMT

Hi Mike,

This works when modifying the existing presets.xml. Yet, when we put a modified presets.xml in /WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-extension/site-data/presets (specified as custom store in presets searchpath), it does not override the existing presets.xml. The original presets.xml is still applied.
So this seems to work differently, compared to components etc.Is this a known issue?

NOTE: we are sure the presets.xml is correct as overriding the existing presets-file with it does work.

cheers,
tom

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

smain46 — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:33:12 GMT

UP

And, i would like to know also if this : http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/User_Configurable_Dashboards is out of date with the last version of alfresco.

Thanks

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

mikeh — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:00:22 GMT

So this seems to work differently, compared to components etc.Is this a known issue?

Not that I know of - please raise a bug in JIRA.

And, i would like to know also if this : http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/User_Configurable_Dashboards is out of date with the last version of alfresco.

The wiki article relates to the Explorer (JSF) client, not Share.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

smain46 — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:17:57 GMT

Thanks a lot.

I just tried to customize the file presets.xml (i want that by default the alfresco-network dashlet does not appear) , I re-starded the tomcat server and create a new user but it doesn't work…i don't know what I have wrong….


…
<preset id="user-dashboard">
      <components>
         <!– title –>
         <component>
            <scope>page</scope>
            <region-id>title</region-id>
            <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
            <url>/components/title/user-dashboard-title</url>
         </component>
         <!– dashboard components –>
         <component>
            <scope>page</scope>
            <region-id>component-1-1</region-id>
            <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
            <url>/components/dashlets/user-calendar</url>
         </component>
       <!–   <component>
            <scope>page</scope>
            <region-id>component-1-2</region-id>
            <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
            <url>/components/dashlets/alfresco-network</url>
         </component>
       –>
         <component>
            <scope>page</scope>
            <region-id>component-2-1</region-id>
            <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
            <url>/components/dashlets/user-welcome</url>
         </component>
…
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Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

smain46 — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:09:37 GMT

It's working now, i don't really know why but it's working

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

jeffreyvddb — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:45:28 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to achieve the same, as the person who posted this thread. I created a presets.xml in shared-folder "/opt/tomcat5.5/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/site-data/presets". When I create a new user and then login with this account, the settings from the presets.xml aren't processed. It seems that Share isn't doing anything with this file. Can someone tell me if it's folder that isn't correct, or that this is a known issue?

Regards,
Jeffrey

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

rsulliv1 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:24:18 GMT

jeffreyvddb, note that toml said the following:

Yet, when we put a modified presets.xml in /WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-extension/site-data/presets (specified as custom store in presets searchpath), it does not override the existing presets.xml. The original presets.xml is still applied.
So this seems to work differently, compared to components etc.Is this a known issue?

he didn't put the file in the shared classpath & he was not successful.

Then Mike said:

Not that I know of - please raise a bug in JIRA.

So, it appears that toml was on the correct customization path & it is not working correctly (as of 27 May 2009).

Did you attempt to follow the lead of toml to see if perhaps the issue has been resolved? Or, on the other hand, have you searched the JIRA tickets to see if there is an outstanding issue logged?

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

muthukimoses — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:14:03 GMT

when i commented out the alfresco network in presets.xml
<!–<component>
            <scope>page</scope>
            <region-id>component-1-2</region-id>
            <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
            <url>/components/dashlets/alfresco-network</url>
         </component>–>

it still brings the dashlet. should that not work?

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

fpp — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:12:57 GMT

Do you mean on a new dashboard or an existing one. Existing ones are loaded from the database for the user / container

fpp

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

andreadip — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:43:51 GMT

Hi,
I'm on the same use case.
Can anyone help me in understanding where share does store the information regarding the dashboard configuration after its creation?

I understood that:
1. the first time a user or site dashboard is created it uses siteService.createSite(..,presets,…). Here it uses the info contained into the presets.xml
2. now, I need (for instance) to modify the initial user-dashboard configuration without using the "customize dashboard" function. How can I access stored information?
3. in any case, whenever a user signs in into share the systen retrieves the dashboad configuration information previously stored (into the repository?) to render correctly the dashboad. Where are stored these information

I hope you can help me
Thanks
AndreaDP

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

gronfelt — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:40:02 GMT

Deployed dashlets are stored in the repository, in the SiteStore (avm://sitestore/), you should be able to locate the files with the node browser.

The AVM SiteStore is accessible via ftp and you could make manual modifications that way. If you add, remove or change a file you will see that the dashboard changes, however, it takes a while (~15 min) for these changes to actually take place.

If you want to make changes programmatically you might want to look in to the sitedata object in the Surf API:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Surf_Platform_-_Freemarker_Template_and_JavaScript_API#sitedata

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

andreadip — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:28:39 GMT

Thanks gronfelt,
that's the info I was looking for. Many thanks again.

Andrea

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

sselvan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:12:01 GMT

I tried to customize the file presets.xml (i want that by default the alfresco-network dashlet does not appear) , I re-started the tomcat server, but I am not able to see any change in my dashboard.

@smain46 or @muthukimos - is there anything else you did to get this working?

@gronfelt - Yours sounds like a solution, but I am not sure how to do the same. (Sorry for being novice). I have the environment locally and I don't need to use FTP correct? I went to node browser and see all my dashboard.xml under AVM SiteStore, but I was not sure where to go to edit those XMLs?! How do I access this store and change these files? What will be the FTP host path, if any?

Is there a way to just change for any user logging in system wide? Note: I did change in presets.xml, but no effect - even though I restarted the server and waited for long time.

Please help! Thank you

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

mikeh — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:42:37 GMT

Changing presets.xml will only change new Sites - it's a template.

Make sure FTP is enabled via alfresco-global.properties.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

gronfelt — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:26:53 GMT

I tried to customize the file presets.xml (i want that by default the alfresco-network dashlet does not appear) , I re-started the tomcat server, but I am not able to see any change in my dashboard.

@smain46 or @muthukimos - is there anything else you did to get this working?

@gronfelt - Yours sounds like a solution, but I am not sure how to do the same. (Sorry for being novice). I have the environment locally and I don't need to use FTP correct? I went to node browser and see all my dashboard.xml under AVM SiteStore, but I was not sure where to go to edit those XMLs?! How do I access this store and change these files? What will be the FTP host path, if any?

Is there a way to just change for any user logging in system wide? Note: I did change in presets.xml, but no effect - even though I restarted the server and waited for long time.

Please help! Thank you

Like Mike says you need to make sure that ftp is enabled, there should be instructions on how to do this in the wiki.

Then you should be able to ftp to localhost. It doesn't matter that you have the environment locally, you still need to access it through ftp, or possibly cifs, since you want to make changes to the sitestore, which could be considered an abstracted layer on a higher level than your local filesystem.

When you access the server through ftp you should see a folder named AVM, there you should be able to locate the XML:s.

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

sselvan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:07:42 GMT

Thanks gronfelt - I was able to enable FTP and access the XML files.

@Mike - I am able to see the new change for the new user dashboard. Thanks Mike!

Another question I have is -
When I place presets.xml in <ALF_HOME>\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension\site-data\presets\presets.xml and try the changes, my changes does not effect. Only when I change it directly in its location, it works.

Already - in this thread it was discussed that a JIRA will be created around May 2009, and I searched in JIRA and I found - http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-1607. This talks about site dashboard. I am assuming this applies to user dashboard also.

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

lucille_arkenst — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:47:25 GMT

I noticed that modifying presets.xml works only for new users. A user logs in once, and presets.xml is ignored. So if I go to the AVM Console, I should be able to enter:

ls avm://sitestore/‍

and modifying one of those files (described by gronfelt) should be the cure, am I correct?
But I got a "Syntax Error." So I looked at the wiki's example:

ls, abc:/, -1‍

and entered ls, avm:/ but it says "Not Found."
Does anyone know how to use the console? Or is it better to do FTP?

Re: Is there a way to create a default Dashboard customization?

zomurn — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:33:34 GMT

In the Alfresco Community 3.3g, we can't browse AVM sitestore through FTP :

Commande :   CWD sitestore
Réponse :   550 Invalid path sitestore‍‍

How to modify this dashboard.xml then ?

EDIT: In fact, the 550 FTP error means "Access Denied". The owner of the sitestore files is System. I fear that there is no friendliness way to change the dashboard