topic Resetting user dashboards using web script in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-user-dashboards-using-web-script/m-p/211462#M164592 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm using the code in the </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/User_Configurable_Dashboards#Initially_Displayed_Components" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">User Configurable Dashboards</A><SPAN> wiki page, and running into a problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The code finds all the available users (using luceneSearch for cm<img id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />erson), then traverses this list and resets the preferences for each user. The traversal works fine, but when it gets to ..</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (preferences.properties["app:dashboard"] != null)<BR /><BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>.. this always returns null. Even for a user who has customized their dashboard. So what happens is that nothing is ever cleared since Alfresco thinks that there is no dashboard preference set.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I set this up as follows:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>1. Create resetdashboards.get.js, resetdashboards.get.desc.xml, resetdashboard.get.html.ftl as follows (in Data Dictionary &gt; Web Scripts &gt; org &gt; alfresco &gt; sample):</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>resetdashboard.get.js</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />var people = search.luceneSearch("TYPE:cm\\:person");<BR /><BR />var notes = [];<BR /><BR />for each (p in people)<BR /><BR />{<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; logger.log("Found user: " + p.properties.userName);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; notes.push("Found user " + p.properties.userName);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; if (p.hasAspect("app:configurable"))<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; var config = p.childAssocs["app:configurations"][0];<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; var prefs = config.childrenByXPath("app:preferences");<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (prefs.length == 1)<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; var preferences = prefs[0];<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (preferences.properties["app:dashboard"] != null)<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; preferences.properties["app:dashboard"] = null;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; preferences.save();<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; logger.log(" preferences found and cleared.");<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; notes.push("Cleared dashboard for " + p.properties.userName);<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR /><BR />}<BR /><BR />model.notes=notes;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>resetdashboard.get.html.ftl</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;html&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;head&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;title&gt;Reset Dashboards&lt;/title&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/head&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;body&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;p&gt; If everything worked users' dashboards should be reset to default. &lt;a href="/share"&gt;Check yours out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;/p&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ul&gt;<BR />&lt;#list notes as note&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;li&gt;${note}&lt;/li&gt;<BR />&lt;/#list&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/ul&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/body&gt;<BR />&lt;/html&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>resetdashboard.get.desc.xml</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;webscript&gt;<BR />&lt;shortname&gt;Reset User Dashboards&lt;/shortname&gt;<BR />&lt;description&gt;Revert all user dashboards to preset-based default&lt;/description&gt;<BR />&lt;url&gt;/sample/resetdashboards&lt;/url&gt;<BR />&lt;authentication&gt;admin&lt;/authentication&gt;<BR />&lt;transaction&gt;required&lt;/transaction&gt;<BR />&lt;/webscript&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>I ran this using the alfresco javascript debugger, and I can see as I step through the code that I never get anything other than null for preferences.properties["app:dashboard"]. I'm running this is as the admin user.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:50:56 GMT cybertoast 2009-12-02T21:50:56Z Resetting user dashboards using web script https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-user-dashboards-using-web-script/m-p/211462#M164592 I'm using the code in the User Configurable Dashboards wiki page, and running into a problem.The code finds all the available users (using luceneSearch for cm<IMG id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://migration33.stage.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />erson), then traverses this list and resets the preferences for each user. The traversal works fine, but when it gets to ..&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (pref Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:50:56 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-user-dashboards-using-web-script/m-p/211462#M164592 cybertoast 2009-12-02T21:50:56Z Re: Resetting user dashboards using web script https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-user-dashboards-using-web-script/m-p/211463#M164593 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The wiki article relates to dashboards in the Explorer (JSF) client world, not Share.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Unfortunately there isn't a wiki article for the Share dashboards, so you need to take a look at the customise-dashboard.post.js code (in site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/dashboard) to see what's going on.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:55:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/resetting-user-dashboards-using-web-script/m-p/211463#M164593 mikeh 2009-12-02T22:55:15Z