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Restricting 'people find'

kvaes — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:35:43 GMT

Is it possible to restrict "regular" users from finding other people?Practical Example/Scenario-> One Share Instance—> Site A for Customer A——-> Contact 1 from Customer A——-> Contact 2 from Customer A——-> …—> Site B for Customer B——-> Contact 1 from Customer B——-> Contact 2 f

Re: Restricting 'people find'

kvaes — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:42:38 GMT

Any ideas on this? I thought of hacking the jsp code, but I'm not eager to do this as it breaks my upgrade path…

Re: Restricting 'people find'

petrush — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:05:32 GMT

Hi, did you find any solution to this?

I think this is quite important in a commercial multi-project environment running on a single server.

Regards

Re: Restricting 'people find'

petrush — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:27:13 GMT

This is a serious issue if alfresco is used for several project, sometimes it is not ok to let a customer be able to search the others that is in the system.

Is there a way to completely disable the "people finder" in share?

Thankful for help

Re: Restricting 'people find'

mabayona — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:20:23 GMT

Multi Tenant?

Multiple instalations in a single server?

Re: Restricting 'people find'

petrush — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:57:38 GMT

Multiple instalations in a single server?

Yes that is an option to consider, which probably is the easiest in terms of installation, but becomes more administration - some central user handling is needed, and it would loose the ability to have your personal dashboard with an overview of what is going on in the different projects.

In my view, it should in best worlds be settable on user/group-level as: 1) no possibility to search for users, 2) project-wide possibility and 3) site-wide possibility. If this is difficult, the best would be to be able to remove the people search completely.

Re: Restricting 'people find'

yasosaran — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:34:19 GMT

we had similar situation, and we did it through organization name. As in our case, all site A users will belong to Org A and site B users will belong to Org B.So now Org A people won't see Org B people.

In the people-finder.get.html file , we got the current users's organization name and checked that against in the people-finder.js file (included another if loop in function PeopleFinder_onReady() after Remove the current user from the list comment). You have to avoid this check for admin.

Thanks,
Yaso

Re: Restricting 'people find'

gronfelt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:36:02 GMT

I'm also interested in this.

yasosaran, would you care to post the changes you've made in the code?

Re: Restricting 'people find'

movaxbx — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 03:53:00 GMT

Hi Yaso,

I know it's old but i've been searching everywhere for this. There are similar questions everywhere but noone has documented or explained it well. how did you pull the organization name? Did you pull this from the people-finder.sj file? if user.isAdmin exists, then maybe i can find the property method in a documentation where i can check it the way you did..

Re: Restricting 'people find'

nwali — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 14:54:12 GMT

yasosaran _ Could you elaborate the changes you made to achieve this?

thanks.