topic Re: Disable 'Create site' link in Alfresco Archive

Disable 'Create site' link

lees — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:37:17 GMT

Hi all,I want to disable the 'Create Site' link from the 'My sites' dashlet in case the user is not belong to admin group.let me know any pointers as to how to implement..-thx

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

norgan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:26:21 GMT

1) Search for the Textstring in the properties files and mark the codeline
2) Search for the JSP, using the codeline, which gives you the text
3) Copy & Change the JSP and change the Myfaces config to use your JSp instead of the standard.

For more details - see the wiki and http://www.ecmarchitect.com

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

lees — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:07:02 GMT

Hi Norgan,

Thanks for the reply!
I am not an Alfresco expert and I didn't worked in any customization parts. Anyway as you said I do a search for the textstring in the properties files and get my-sites.js. I am looking on it. Hopefully this is the one you suggested.

Lees

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

norgan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:56:11 GMT

I hope so as well That was jus the way, I would have searched.

You might think about adjusting the rights system, however, to finetune the SHARE rights to "may create new sites" or something. because hiding the link will still allow black sheep to directly call the JSP and create their shadow sites.

And regardless of wether you solved it, alfresco has to do it or the community might help - open up a ticket with issues.alfresco.com as feature request/improvement for share. Then post the link here to make people vote on it.

Norgan

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

gronfelt — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:46:35 GMT

If you simply want to prevent the Create Site-link from being shown you could disable it in the file my-sites.get.html.ftl.

You should be able to use something like this to enable it for Admin users only:

<#if user.isAdmin>
                 <div class="toolbar">
                       <a href="#" id="${args.htmlid}-createSite-button" class="theme-color-1">${msg("link.createSite")}</a>
                 </div>
</#if>
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(That's also how the Administration link in the header is shown/hidden.)

However, this will not disable the functionality itself, merely the link.

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

lees — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:51:26 GMT

That is really cool workaround!!

It is now working as well and still looking whether I can add site_managers group instead of admin :wink: .

Thanks gronfelt.
However as Norgan said, will open a ticket in JIRA.

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

lees — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:22:26 GMT

Another solution, but it is with Alfresco explorer
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=21330

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

unknown-user — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:41:09 GMT

Using this solution, When I log back in as a non admin user, I can still see the button. Does this only work for users that do not have a profile yet? If so how can I force everyone to have new profiles at login?

Also using this method can I remove the invite right to all users? I only want admin and site admins to be able to invite users.

Thanks

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

lgarcia — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:08:19 GMT

Hi all. I tried the above code and it works. But what i want is to allow the creation of sites for some users, not only the admin. I want to create a function, like the "isAdmin", for example "isfromGroupCreate", that returns true is the users bellongs to the group "Create". Someone has any ideas?
Thanks,
Luís Garcia.

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

fkoenig — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:43:30 GMT

If you simply want to prevent the Create Site-link from being shown you could disable it in the file my-sites.get.html.ftl.

You should be able to use something like this to enable it for Admin users only:
<#if user.isAdmin>
                 <div class="toolbar">
                       <a href="#" id="${args.htmlid}-createSite-button" class="theme-color-1">${msg("link.createSite")}</a>
                 </div>
</#if>
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(That's also how the Administration link in the header is shown/hidden.)

However, this will not disable the functionality itself, merely the link.

This only prevents the "Create Site" link from being shown in the My Sites dashlet.

If you want to remove it from the drop-down menu next to Sites in the page header, edit header.get.html.ftl , something like:


<#if !isGuest>
         <#if user.isAdmin>
         <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
            <li>
               <a href="#" onclick="thisHeader.showCreateSite(); return false;">${msg("header.sites.createSite")}</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         </#if>
         </#if>
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Io remove it from the Getting started dashlet edit user-welcome.get.html.ftl , something like :


<#if user.isAdmin>
      <div class="detail-list-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.customiseDashboard")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.customiseDashboard")}</div>
         <div><a href="${url.context}/page/customise-user-dashboard" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.customiseDashboard")}</a></div>
      </div>
      <div class="detail-list-item last-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.createSite")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.createSite")}</div>
         <div><a id="${args.htmlid}-createSite-button" href="#" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.createSite")}</a></div>
      </div>
<#else>
      <div class="detail-list-item last-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.customiseDashboard")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.customiseDashboard")}</div>
         <div><a href="${url.context}/page/customise-user-dashboard" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.customiseDashboard")}</a></div>
      </div>
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Re: Disable 'Create site' link

fast3r — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:41:57 GMT

I'm trying to do the same for users not belonging to a specific created group (in my case, SYSTEM_MANAGERS), so I can't use the isAdmin attribute.

The only way I've found in Share is to make a remote call to "/api/people/{username}?groups=true" and check whether in the groups array of the user properties there's the SYSTEM_MANAGERS one.
By the way, this is very expensive in terms of page overhead, it has to be called for each page in Share… there must be a better way, like saving a boolean value in a global constant and checking the repo only when the user logs in.

Any suggestions?

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

brauliotrujillo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:29:49 GMT

If you simply want to prevent the Create Site-link from being shown you could disable it in the file my-sites.get.html.ftl.

to remove it from the Getting started dashlet edit user-welcome.get.html.ftl , something like :


<#if user.isAdmin>
      <div class="detail-list-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.customiseDashboard")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.customiseDashboard")}</div>
         <div><a href="${url.context}/page/customise-user-dashboard" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.customiseDashboard")}</a></div>
      </div>
      <div class="detail-list-item last-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.createSite")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.createSite")}</div>
         <div><a id="${args.htmlid}-createSite-button" href="#" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.createSite")}</a></div>
      </div>
<#else>
      <div class="detail-list-item last-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.customiseDashboard")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.customiseDashboard")}</div>
         <div><a href="${url.context}/page/customise-user-dashboard" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.customiseDashboard")}</a></div>
      </div>
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Excellent post by fkoenig, i already did as he instructs, just one important note, i got two errors the first time i ran the server again, one error was on the user-welcome.get.html.ftl, but i found out its only missing an "</#if> at the end of the code, just add that and you should be fine. The other issue was on the header.get.html.ftl , i got it to work by removing the lines at both ends of the suggested code, "<#if !isGuest> and "</#if>, leaving only the <#if user.isAdmin>.

Now with these tweaks, only Admin would be able to create sites, which in our case works great because we want to control that part of the app.

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

srinivasmurty — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:58:21 GMT

I am also looking to do this. However, I recently deployed Alfresco Community edition 3.2 on an Amazon EC2 instance. Turns out this was a ".war" implementation which does not expose all the Alfresco files for me to open, edit and customize away. I am scratching my bald had wondering how I can do this. I have another installation on a server at home which of course lets me do all those tweaks. Anyone of you experts know what I can do?

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

srinivasmurty — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:07:49 GMT

I just thought I should add some additional stuff that I had tried. I used "jar" to extract the files from the "share.war" file. I then made some changes to replace some of the logo files under the default theme's image folder. This had worked in my other Alfresco Community installation. Alas, despite recreating the "war" file and replacing the old one with the new one, it does not seem to work. I was hoping if this worked, I would go on to other stuff like removing the "Create Site" link. If anyone there has an idea what's going on I would really appreciate the help.

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

fast3r — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:11:31 GMT

Maybe you could think about downloading the whole source from Alfresco (HEAD), make your changes and rebuild the package from source.
There are some good tutorials on Alfresco Wiki that explain how to do that!

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

mikeh — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:38:42 GMT

Use the extensions mechanism*, that's what it's there for.

* shared/classes/alfresco/extension for the alfresco.war
shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension for the share.war

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

srinivasmurty — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:42:25 GMT

Mike, thanks for the info. I will look it up. Might require me to dust off some tech cobwebs to figure it out.

Fast3r - thank you for the suggestion. I do believe that's a good way to do it. However, I had decided to go with one of Alfresco's Amazon AMIs which has a pre-configured Alfresco installation. At the moment, I found it more important to get up and running with Alfresco Share rather than try to learn how to create Amazon AMIs and then do the hand-build thing.

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

srinivasmurty — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:47:20 GMT

I had a question. Is http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Client_Configuration_Guide the most current documentation that will help me with understanding "web-extension"?

Use the extensions mechanism*, that's what it's there for.

* shared/classes/alfresco/extension for the alfresco.war
shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension for the share.war

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

ottopodo — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:30:37 GMT

Hello,
here is my solution using some suggestions I found in this Thread:
extend header.get.js by adding this function:

function userHasGroup(username, group) {
   var result = remote.call("/api/people/" + stringUtils.urlEncode(username) + "?groups=true");
   if (result.status == 200 && result != "{}")
   {
      var user = eval('(' + result + ')');
     
      var groups = new Array();
      groups = user.groups;
      var mygroups = "";
      for (i=0; i<groups.length; i++)
      {                   
         if (groups[i].displayName == group || groups[i].displayName == "ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS"){ 
        return true; // found group
      }else{
        mygroup = mygroups+groups[i].displayName;
      }
      }
      
      return false;
   }
   else return false;
}
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and by adding at the end of the file this:


  var createSiteVisible = userHasGroup(user.name, 'YOUR_GROUP_NAME');
  model.createSiteVisible = createSiteVisible;
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YOUR_GROUP_NAME is the name of the GROUP you created to control site creation feature.

Then in header.get.html.ftl replace:


<#if !user.isGuest>
         <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
            <li>
               <a href="#" onclick="thisHeader.showCreateSite(); return false;">${msg("header.sites.createSite")}</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         </#if>
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with:


<#if createSiteVisible>
         <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
            <li>
               <a href="#" onclick="thisHeader.showCreateSite(); return false;">${msg("header.sites.createSite")}</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         </#if>
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Marco

Re: Disable 'Create site' link

ottopodo — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:33:24 GMT

To complete the previous post in Alfresco 3.4 you have to extend the new files modules/header/sites.get.js and modules/header/sites.get.html.ftl
The code remains the same.