topic Re: Site has no managers ugh!!! in Alfresco Archive

Site has no managers ugh!!!

jriker1 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:10:45 GMT

Had a site that wasn't using synching with AD originally and now am. As part of the process it blew away all users not in a particular group and that included someone who was the only manager of a site we need. Is there a way to manually add someone as a site admin? I am a default Alfresco admins

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

jriker1 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:18:02 GMT

So should I assume there is no answer to this? From a basic rule, user creates a site, site is heavily used, there is only one manager, manager leaves and removed from Active Directory so system removes him with Sync, no managers for site anymore. Would have thought admins could do anything but guess now as the options to change a site layout or manage users is not there.

JR

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

norgan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:35:39 GMT

Hi, the admin has the rights to add others

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

jriker1 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:07:14 GMT

Hi, the admin has the rights to add others

Thanks for the reply however do not think that's true. I am looking at the code and it explicitely states SiteManagers:

   <#if userIsSiteManager>
      <#assign linkClass><#if "invite" == activePage>class="active-page"</#if></#assign>
      <span class="yui-button yui-link-button">
         <span class="first-child">
            <a href="${url.context}/page/site/${page.url.templateArgs.site!}/invite" ${linkClass}>${msg("link.invite")}</a>
         </span>
      </span>
   </#if>
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will see this invite link and when I'm logged in as an admin I can not see this link on sites I do not manage directly. Unless something is broken.

JR

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

norgan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:49:59 GMT

Hmm …. might be that you are right. I would have taken a bet on it 😞

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

ivan_plestina — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:52:27 GMT

Try running the following javascript:

var site = siteService.getSite("sitename");
site.setMembership("username", "Manager");‍‍

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

jriker1 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:06:22 GMT

Try running the following javascript:

var site = siteService.getSite("sitename");
site.setMembership("username", "Manager");‍‍

Thanks Ivan. Looks promising. I assume I can't execute this from the share site JS directly. Do I need to put this in a particular project/js file?

Thanks.

JR

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

ivan_plestina — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:37:44 GMT

Put those 2 lines into Data dictionary/Scripts/some_name.js and then open document details and click Run action->Execute a script->Choose the script you have just created. All should be done from Alfresco Explorer.

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

jriker1 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:48:55 GMT

Thanks for your continued help Ivan. I did as you suggest replacing the username with mine and the room with the room name as it's referenced in Explorer. Got the following:

Failed to run Actions due to error: 08220019 Failed to execute script 'workspace://SpacesStore/260a19ef-5d08-41fe-9172-534a515cdffb': 08220018 An authority was not found for GROUP_site_itonly_Manager

I know it's finding the group as if I put in a bogus one it referrences a null object which it isn't doing here.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

JR

Edit: I figured it out. Should have been "SiteManager" instead of "Manager". Thanks a bunch Ivan. You completely rock!!!!! Looks like the system has some work still to be done with synching as I know the system itself will not allow you to remove a manager if they are the only one but synching will. Thanks again.

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

ivan_plestina — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:29:28 GMT

Edit: I figured it out. Should have been "SiteManager" instead of "Manager". Thanks a bunch Ivan. You completely rock!!!!! Looks like the system has some work still to be done with synching as I know the system itself will not allow you to remove a manager if they are the only one but synching will. Thanks again.

Actually, you solved my problem too with SiteManager. I have an Alfresco that was upgraded all the way from v2.1 and probably Manager and SiteManager got mixed up in the process. Using Manager worked for me on couple of sites but I got the same error as you on the others.

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

doiheartwentyon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:32:03 GMT

I lost all my site memberships after a migration to another server and subsequent ldap/kerberos sync.
The above script works, but when I tried to extend it to give me managership of all sites like this

var sites = siteService.listSites("","",0);

for (var i=0; i<sites.length(); i++) {
    sites[i].setMembership("dlinton","SiteManager");
}‍‍‍‍‍

I get the error 08250023 Java class "[Lorg.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site;" has no public instance field or method named "__noSuchMethod__".

Does listSites not return Site objects then ?

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

ebogaard — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:34:51 GMT

Isn't it maybe possible to add this functionality to Alfresco?
It seems to me that there is often a situatiation where this is needed. For example, when someone leaves the company and there is no other SiteManager.

Re: Site has no managers ugh!!!

mcox — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:50:59 GMT

I came across what seems to be a similar situation while trying out Share.

I deleted a Share site through Share and later recovered it by mistake through Explorer.

However this broke searching for sites through Share which failed with:

01010006 Wrapped Exception (with status template): 01010031 Error during processing of the template 'Method public org.alfresco.repo.jscript.ScriptableHashMap org.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site.listMembers(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,int) threw an exception when invoked on org.alfresco.repo.site.script.Site@1240567'. Please contact your system administrator.‍

This seems to be because there was no SiteManager for the recovered site, which was merely reinstated as an Alfresco space.

The site also could not be accessed or deleted through Share and Explorer prevents you from deleting spaces under Share.

Trying to fix an orphaned site like this by adding a site manager using something like:

var site = siteService.getSite("XXXX");
site.setMembership("admin", "SiteManager");‍‍

does not work because the actual groups controlling site access are not recovered when the space is. So it throws:

Failed to run Actions due to error: 01010033 Failed to execute script 'workspace://SpacesStore/75dd0795-6b70-45ba-bb30-d00668091313': 01010032 An authority was not found for GROUP_site_XXXX_SiteManager‍

Finally I managed to fix this by recreating the site groups and adding admin as a site manager using this code (simplified):

  
  var siteGroup =  groups.createRootGroup(  "site_" + sitename, sitename );

  siteGroup.createGroup(  "site_" + sitename + "_SiteManager", sitename );  
  siteGroup.createGroup(  "site_" + sitename + "_SiteCollaborator", sitename );
  siteGroup.createGroup(  "site_" + sitename + "_SiteContributor", sitename );
  siteGroup.createGroup(  "site_" + sitename + "_SiteConsumer", sitename );

  var site = siteService.getSite( sitename );
  site.setMembership( "admin", "SiteManager");
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I am not sure if the site is fully functional after this but at least you can delete it..