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How to hide 'sites' space in explorer ?

sparcle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:44:34 GMT

Hello !I'm a newbie in Alfresco. Just have it installed and try to configure for a small team. We use Share for collaboration, but we also use Explorer for store common documents (such as offers and common documentation) - it's very usefull because of WebDav access. The problem is: how can I restric

Re: How to hide 'sites' space in explorer ?

mikeh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:35:45 GMT

You can't is the simple answer. Share's permissions model is exactly the same as the one used by the Explorer client. What that means is that any content you can see in Explorer, you can also access in Share. If you don't want people to see the content, then you need to make the Site "private".

We've made a change to how Moderated Sites work for v3.3 - content will be private, but the Site will be discoverable.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: How to hide 'sites' space in explorer ?

sparcle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:52:20 GMT

Thank you for reply Mike!

I have tried to set my existing site to "private", but - when creating new site it's simple - I have a choice of "public", "moderated" and "private". But for existing site, after click on "Edit Site Details" I don't have such a choice. I have only checkbox: Access "public", which is non-checked (my site was moderated). So how can I turn my existing moderated site to be a private one ?

Jakub

Re: How to hide 'sites' space in explorer ?

mikeh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:49:04 GMT

Ah yes, we've fixed that issue with the Edit Site Details dialog this week on an Enterprise branch - it'll be merged to HEAD soon when we kick off the v3.3 development.

As for your issue - you should just be able to remove the SiteConsumer role from the EVERYONE group on your site's container (the one above documentLibrary, etc.)

Thanks,
Mike

Re: How to hide 'sites' space in explorer ?

sparcle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:57:15 GMT

Thank you again Mike !
I was not able to remove SiteConsumer role from the EVERYONE group in Share - but I did remove "read" role from Everyone group in Explorer. I think this is what you meant.
Everything seems to be ok. Thank you !

Jakub.

Re: How to hide 'sites' space in explorer ?

isalinas — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:30:01 GMT

Do you know what files where updated to allow this? Would i be able to merge these changes to my 3.2 install?

Thanks!

Re: How to hide 'sites' space in explorer ?

sparcle — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:16:14 GMT

Hello,
I did it by stardard upgrade procedure, as follows:
- backup the database,
- backup the alf-data directory (this is where the content is stored),
- install Alfresco 3.3,
- Run the new installation to see if everything is ok,
- If it is ok, then:
    - stop Alfresco server,
    - restore database from the backup,
    - restore alf-data directory from your backup
    - start Alfresco server.

I'm not sure If it's the correct procedure, but it worked for me.