topic Re: Push dashlets to users? in Alfresco Archive

Push dashlets to users?

gronfelt — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:02:21 GMT

Is there a way to push out dashlets to user dashboards, so that a new dashlet can be added to every users dashboard? Where is the dashboard configuration saved, is it stored in a db table or the contentstore, or someplace else?

Re: Push dashlets to users?

jpfi — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:10:04 GMT

hi,
dashboard-config as all Share component & pageconfiguration is saved in an AVM store (called sitestore) within alfresco repo. The config is saved as XML to d:content prop of these AVM-nodes.
So it is possible to implement some JavaScript code to modify all user-dashboard configs.
cheers, jan

Re: Push dashlets to users?

a_thakur — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:31:09 GMT

The dashboard defaults can be found in the file Presets.xml
This file is located far under the WEB-INF folder and I do not have a installation near hand right now to give you the exact part.

You can extend this preset obviously, so i think this will help you a bit.

Cheers

Re: Push dashlets to users?

jpfi — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:06:16 GMT

hi,
jub, but changing presets (inside of site-data/presets) does only work if the user doesn't have a dashboard config. It is used as default value when user first visits his dashboard.
Cheers, jan

Re: Push dashlets to users?

a_thakur — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:56:17 GMT

Oh right, in that case I misread.
Good question, would like to know if there is a way aswell.
Sorry I can't help more.

Regards,
A.Thakur

Re: Push dashlets to users?

gronfelt — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:13:40 GMT

hi,
dashboard-config as all Share component & pageconfiguration is saved in an AVM store (called sitestore) within alfresco repo. The config is saved as XML to d:content prop of these AVM-nodes.
So it is possible to implement some JavaScript code to modify all user-dashboard configs.
cheers, jan

I've begun looking in to this, and I've located the proper nodes in avm://sitestore.

However, I don't really understand where to implement the javascript, as I understand it scripts in the Data Dictionary can be applied to documents or folders, but in this case I'd rather run the script without any particular context and use the AVM API methods to retrieve the proper sitestore nodes and perform node methods on them. How can I do that?

(I'm sorry if this appears somewhat confused, but I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to programming in general an programming Alfresco i particular).