topic Re: How to extend the user model? in Alfresco Archive

How to extend the user model?

lista — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:05:19 GMT

I'd like someone who already dealt with this to give me an advice.How would you extend the user model, or to put it in another words, how would you add your own custom properties to the user? Obviously, the original contentModel.xml should not be modified.All advices are welcome.Cheers,Lista.

Re: How to extend the user model?

savic_prvoslav — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:03:14 GMT

true, you can create aspect and add it to person on adding it .
but if you really need to change model, just change it but pay attention latter when you ugrade alfresco .

Re: How to extend the user model?

richard_im — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:48:48 GMT

This has been done in the past, but as the previous poster notes, you would need to add it to the contentModel.xml or using aspects.

Whichever route you take, you would need to modify the various user specific pages in /alfresco and /share. For /share, you would also need to add addtional java classes for the userbean.

But, this is also dependent on how you are going to use this additional model data.

Re: How to extend the user model?

lista — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:32:53 GMT

Thank you both for your answers.

I think I'll be using a combination of aspects and associations.
In addition to all the properties I need, aspect will also hold an association to the 'original user'. These two will form a 'new user', with all the necessary properties.

This way, I don't need to touch the original model. And since I'm using Alfresco as a repository, richard.im's remarks about specific pages are not of importance.

Cheers,
Lista.

Re: How to extend the user model?

lucille_arkenst — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:54:20 GMT

Right. Also, I think the conventional way is to put your customisations in the "extensions" folder. (There are two extensions folders; find the one in sub-directory under Tomcat.) http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Step-By-Step:_Creating_A_Custom_Model See #3: "Making the new content model file available to the Alfresco container as an extension." This way you don't have to worry about conflicts with the original model, and you don't have to worry when upgrading Alfresco.

Cheers

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:49:57 GMT

Hi, may be you could tell me how to add aspect to alfresco user (3.3 version)?
It will be two different aspects and I should be able to limit user search using them. Any ideas how to do that?
I will really appreciate any help, because I am really limited in time resources.
Thanks

Re: How to extend the user model?

savic_prvoslav — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:51:14 GMT

can you send me specs on aspects and I will provide you with needed modifications.

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:19:55 GMT

It will be something like:

<aspects>
       <aspect name="as:IsClubMember">
         <title>Club member info</title>
         <properties>
            <property name="as:memberCode">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
            <property name="as:validTill">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
         </properties>
      </aspect>
      <aspect name="as:HasAccsess">
         <title>Access to sistem</title>
         <properties>
            <property name="as:Enabled">
               <type>d:text</type>
            </property>
         </properties>
      </aspect>
   </aspects>
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All users, if they want to provide their club member info, should have possibility to add as:IsClubMember aspect.
Admin user should have possibility to set as:HasAccsess to the user.

Hope it helps you to answer my question ASAP.

Re: How to extend the user model?

savic_prvoslav — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:48:14 GMT

ok so

All users, if they want to provide their club member info, should have possibility to add as:IsClubMember aspect.

This is first problem because user can not add aspect on him self, so you have to use runAs part for this.
javadoc on runas you have hire

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=alfresco+runas

click on third result .

Admin user should have possibility to set as:HasAccsess to the user.

this is not a problem. just add action in userlist":\jsp\users\users.jsp

and last how to add aspect on a user example.

 Map<QName,Serializable> auditableProps = 
        new HashMap<QName,Serializable>();
      auditableProps.put(ContentModel.PROP_CREATOR, blog.getCreator());
      auditableProps.put(ContentModel.PROP_CREATED, blog.getCreated());
      auditableProps.put(ContentModel.PROP_MODIFIER, blog.getModifier());
      auditableProps.put(ContentModel.PROP_MODIFIED, blog.getModified());
      nodeService.addAspect(
        profileRef, ContentModel.ASPECT_AUDITABLE, auditableProps);‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

hope it helps!

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:34:20 GMT

Thanks for quick answer. I'll write if I'll have problems.

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:38:12 GMT

I several questions:
Maybe Alfresco Explorer has default user disabling parameter like alfresco share has?
And where I could read more or may be you could tell me more about adding that as:IsClubMember aspect action.
What I have at the moment: testUser.xml where aspects are defined (like in forum issue) and test-context.xml for registration.
That my next steps should be?

Thanks for you help

Re: How to extend the user model?

savic_prvoslav — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:14:00 GMT

about diableing user you can do that with.

authenticationService.setAuthenticationEnabled(userName, false);
authenticationService.setAuthenticationEnabled(userName, true);‍‍

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:50:25 GMT

What should be done to see custom aspect in person information (Alfresco Explorer)?

Thanks a lot

Re: How to extend the user model?

savic_prvoslav — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:03:45 GMT

you go to edit user and you will see thoose, because in that dialog you have <rropertySheetGrid , witch shows all props on a node( in this case user)

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:21:34 GMT

I checked that part already and didn't find it. In addition to what I have done before I write custom dialog. My dialog which adds the aspect code:


NodeRef nodeRef = Application.getCurrentUser(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()).getPerson();
      
      if (!this.getNodeService().hasAspect(nodeRef,
            MyContentModel.ASPECT_INFO)) {
         Map<QName, Serializable> vInfoProps = new HashMap<QName, Serializable>();
         vCardProps.put(MyContentModel.PROP_1,
               this.number);

         // add the aspect to the space
            this.getNodeService().addAspect(nodeRef,
                  MyContentModel.ASPECT_INFO, vInfoProps );
            // if the above calls were successful, then reset Person Node in the session
               Application.getCurrentUser(context).reset();
      }
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What I am missing?

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:59:57 GMT

Thanks,
I found that <config evaluator="aspect-name" … part was missing. Thanks everyone

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:29:54 GMT

I want to show disable user button in users.jsp Alfresco explorer only for active users. How to do that?

Thanks a lot

about diableing user you can do that with.

authenticationService.setAuthenticationEnabled(userName, false);
authenticationService.setAuthenticationEnabled(userName, true);‍‍

Re: How to extend the user model?

savic_prvoslav — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:44:26 GMT

Takes a bit of know how in order to do this.

<a:actionLink value="#{msg.modify}" image="/images/icons/edituser.gif" showLink="false" action="dialog:somedialog" actionListener="#{DialogManager.bean.setupUserAction}">
<f:param name="id" value="#{r.id}" />
</a:actionLink>‍‍‍

define your dialog and that is all, have a look how delete user is done and you fill fix this in 30min max.

Re: How to extend the user model?

inocka — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:54:16 GMT

I already implemented the disable action and it works fine. My question was how to show that action only for active user. I don't want to see actionLink disable if user was already disabled. Thanks in advance

Re: How to extend the user model?

savic_prvoslav — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:06:25 GMT

you can create to have rendered="!r.disabled"