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Create New Custom Role

jhassler — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:05:22 GMT

I would like to add a new role. It can see all folders in the Document Library (except those prevented by the folder's owner) and upload to them but can only see its own documents within them. I've seen a couple of posts related to creating new roles…http://forums1.man.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.ph

Re: Create New Custom Role

marco_altieri — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:54:01 GMT

I don't know if you still need this information.
I had the same problem and I solved it creating manually some groups.
If the site is called sitename and the role is called RoleName you have to create the group: site_sitename_RoleName
I wrote the following code to automatically create these groups:


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

for (var siteIndex = 0; siteIndex < allSites.length; siteIndex++) {
   createAuthorities(allSites[siteIndex].shortName, ["YourCustomContributor", "YourCustomConsumer"]);
}

function createAuthorities(siteName, rolesList) {
   var prefix = "site_" + siteName + "_";
   for (var roleIndex = 0; roleIndex < rolesList.length; roleIndex++) {
      var groupName = prefix + rolesList[roleIndex];
      
      if (people.getGroup("GROUP_" + groupName) == null) {
         people.createGroup(groupName);
      }
   }
}
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Re: Create New Custom Role

alessandromiazo — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:23:44 GMT

hi guys,
I have already created my web site and now i want to create new custom roles..I'm facing the same issue;
Could you please tell me where did you add the Java Code Marco?

Re: Create New Custom Role

marco_altieri — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:04:48 GMT

hi guys,
I have already created my web site and now i want to create new custom roles..I'm facing the same issue;
Could you please tell me where did you add the Java Code Marco?

It's not a Java code. It's javascript. You should create a new javascript in Data Dictionary/Scripts and execute it manually. If you have created only one site, you don't need to do it: it's better to create the groups manually.

Re: Create New Custom Role

marco_altieri — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:54:19 GMT

The groups created manually or using the javascript are not 100% equivalent to the groups automatically created by Alfresco: Alfresco doesn't create these "role groups" in the default zone, that's way they aren't visible.

To do the same, it's necessary to use the Java AuthorityService