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Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

avin_jss — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:03:18 GMT

Hi, I have Alfresco 3.2 setup on ubuntu mysql tomcat. I already had some sites on my setup and then I got requirement to create some custom roles for new sites that will be created. I followed following link to make custom role http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Custom_Permissions_in_Share Bu

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

avin_jss — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:54:59 GMT

Is thier anyway to save custom authority for a old site in database????

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

loftux — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:57:50 GMT

Hi,

Try this javascript. Save it in Data Dictionary, Scripts as fixPermission.js


var n=search.findNode("workspace://SpacesStore/bc93bd54-384e-413c-b085-dc9e0314d53f"); 
if(n!=null)
{
n.setPermission("SiteCustomManager", "GROUP_site_mysite_SiteCustomManager")
}
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You have to replace the workspace://SpacesStore/bc93bd54-384e-413c-b085-dc9e0314d53f with the correct id for your space, that is the space id you can find in Alfresco Explorer. Navigate to Company Home/Sites/mysite and select View details. Right click on 'Alfresco Node Reference' and select 'Copy link location'.

Execute the script from any space in Alfresco explorer suing 'Run Action', execute script.

I have not tested this, so you may have to adopt a bit.

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

avin_jss — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:05:05 GMT

setting the permission is not following the problem, i think we create authority then add authority.
So can you please suggest a new javascript for that

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

avin_jss — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:25:35 GMT

Finally i got the solution and i will posted soon.It required backward compatibility in alfresco share.

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

djau — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:17:21 GMT

solution ?

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

oscgon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:38:20 GMT

I have the same error, so I´d like to know how can I resolve this problem.

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

roseta — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:01:32 GMT

please, I have the same problem now, could you please be so kind and post the solution you got? THANKS!!! 😃

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

jperilla — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:01:23 GMT

I have this same problem. Any solution yet?

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

kszosze — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:58:20 GMT

At moment the best solution I had found to fix permissions in older share after create new roles is that


var allSites = siteService.listSites(null, null, 0);

//var logFile = companyhome.childByNamePath("log.txt");
//   if (logFile == null)
//   {
//      logFile = companyhome.createFile("log.txt");
//   }

for (var siteIndex = 0; siteIndex < allSites.length; siteIndex++) {
   createAuthorities(allSites[siteIndex].shortName, [CustomRole,CustomRole2], allSites[siteIndex].getNode());
}

function createAuthorities(siteName, rolesList, siteNode) {
   var siteExp = "site_" + siteName;
   var prefix = siteExp + "_";
   //var n=search.findNode("workspace://SpacesStore/"+siteId);

//logFile.content = "Site.id :"+siteNode.id+"\r\n";
//logFile.content += "Node :"+siteNode+"\r\n";
//logFile.save();
   var rootGroup = groups.getGroup(siteExp);
   for (var roleIndex = 0; roleIndex < rolesList.length; roleIndex++) {
      var groupName = prefix + rolesList[roleIndex];
      if (groups.getGroup(groupName) == null){
         rootGroup.createGroup(groupName,siteName+"_"+rolesList[roleIndex]);
      }
      if(siteNode!=null)
      {   
//logFile.content += "Group :GROUP_" + groupName+"\r\n";
//logFile.save();
         siteNode.setPermission(rolesList[roleIndex], "GROUP_" + groupName);
      }
   }
}

Where CustomRole and CustomRole2 are the role name we had created in sitePermissionDefinitions.xml. If you only want to fix the permissions, just only comment the createGroup lines.
There are a collateral effect that I don't know how to solve it. Alfresco have some zones where which contains the node groups linked to the roles. In fact in share that zone is APP.SHARE. The elements contained in that zone are invisible to user in UI, so usually we don't know what are storage in. When we create a group needed for new roles, it is created in a public zone so we will see a lot of groups named like roles in our Groups Management UI. The ideal aproach is make that groups in APP.SHARE zone but doing it in Javascript API I can't. I think I must use Java.

I hope this can help you and be a nice workaround.
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Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

tomen — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:48:57 GMT

Hi,
I tried the js script, but I get this error :

Failed the actions due to error: Failed to execute script 06270393 'workspace://SpacesStore/b3deffd0-e0e0-47f3-b210-05e4f9c2c131': 06270392 ReferenceError: "MyCustomCollaborator" is not defined (workspace://SpacesStore/b3deffd0-e0e0-47f3-b210-05e4f9c2c131#10)‍

Did someone solve this issue ?

Thanks

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

nadaoneal — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:10:27 GMT

We had a very similar issue for our site, but as far as we know, we didn't create any new custom roles; we just edited files like the workflowModel.xml, adhoc_processdefinition.xml, etc. We ended up getting the error for "GROUP_site_[sitename]_All" on all sites, which I think is an Alfresco default group.

kszosze's script worked for us, so I'm not sure what issue the other poster was having (though I note the same thing happened to a completely different person in this other thread). Did you remember to replace all instances of "CustomRole, CustomRole2" with your own value(s)?

Re: Custom Role creation crashes old sites.

tomen — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:45:49 GMT

In fact, I made a huge mistake, I replaced customeRole by SiteCustomManager instead of "SiteCustomManager" !

It works great.