topic Re: Admin announcements in Alfresco Archive

Admin announcements

lees — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:35:56 GMT

Hi,In share, is there any dashlet available for publishing announcements for the whole share users?There are many sites in my share with different user groups. I want to display the administrator announcements for the whole share users (not only for a single site user group).Any idea?ThxLees

Re: Admin announcements

systec — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:01:42 GMT

We had to provide something very similar for a client by building a custom dashlet. I used the Todo List dashlet kindly provided by Ixxus as a starting point - see http://www.ixxus.com/blog/2009/04/dashlet-todo-list/. I would make the dashlet available but it's the clients' IP.

Re: Admin announcements

lees — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:18:29 GMT

Thank you systec!

I already got that dashlet, but the installation failed.

did you install the todo-list dashlet successfully?

Re: Admin announcements

systec — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:38:46 GMT

To be honest i dont think i followed their intallation instructions completely.

For Alfresco Explorer:
I extracted the custom content model into my own extension folder -
TOMCAT_HOME\shared\classes\alfresco\extension

I extracted the webscript into the repository -
TOMCAT_HOME\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts

For Alfresco Share:
I extracted the todolist_share.zip into TOMCAT_HOME\webapps\share (as per instructions)

I've tested this on Alfresco 3.2 and the dashlet is available when I customise the user dashboard. Hope that helps.

Re: Admin announcements

lees — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:59:11 GMT

Thank you, got it worked.
Maybe I didn't use the extension directory.

Systec,

As you said, it is a good idea to write something similar to this dashlet, which will fetch the events, like what is the calender dashlet do.