topic Can I extend the People field to do more than search & return user names? in Alfresco Archive

Can I extend the People field to do more than search & return user names?

joeblue — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 18:10:00 GMT

My Alfresco BPM (aka Activiti) platform will start off supporting over 10,000 end users, and will eventually grow to support over 150,000 end users. As such, limiting the people search to just first and last name will not be sufficient. I'll have too many people with the same first and last name, an

Re: Can I extend the People field to do more than search & return user names?

douglascrp — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 18:53:26 GMT

It is not clear to me if what you are asking for is the Alfresco Share's people finder or the Activiti's one.

Re: Can I extend the People field to do more than search & return user names?

joeblue — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 21:46:19 GMT

Douglas, thanks for pointing that out. I'm talking about Activiti. I edited the post to say "Alfresco BPM (aka Activiti)".

Re: Can I extend the People field to do more than search & return user names?

gdharley — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 16:55:34 GMT

Hey Joe,

The short answers is, certainly you can do what you are looking to do.
These are the sort of customizations that we specialize in and the wonderful thing about Activiti is that they provide us the hooks to modify any of the builtin functions.

Basically, the People Finder code can be found in two files (form-directives.js) and the associated template select-people-popover.html. (yes, you will need to pull the source from Alfresco's Activiti Enterprise Nexus repo - but if you have an enterprise license you will have been given credentials for this repo).

Once you have the source, you need to overload the "selectPeoplePopover" directive with your own version that references your own template.

To do this you DO NOT need to modify any of the base javascript classes in lace, thater you overload using the built in resourceLoader mechanism (resourceLoader was created for exactly this reason). You can find resourceLoader documented here: Alfresco Activiti - Custom Web Resources

The work is straightforward and we have literally customized the entire activiti-app UI in different ways using this approach for a number of clients. Additionally, it is relatively future proof as we have successfully taken customers from version 1.3 to 1.5 without any modification necessary to the overload code. This is a testament to Alfresco's UI structure.

Hope this gets you pointed int he right direction.

Greg

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