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4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

ggates1 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:08:05 GMT

Hi,I am customizing UI Actions Menus to reduce the actions that a user can take when dealing with a document. One of the UI Actions I want to remove is Publish which on windows does not show within either the document browse action menu or the document details action menu after editing the share-d

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

jpotts — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:13:38 GMT

Hi George,

It is not a good idea to change any of the files distributed with Alfresco unless there is no other way to do what you are trying to do. Instead, you should use the "extension" mechanism. Also, in Alfresco 4 it is really easy to turn off an action. Check it out:

1. Create a directory called web-extension under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco
2. Create a file called share-config-custom.xml with the following content:

<alfresco-config>
<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocLibActions">
    <actions>
         <!– Publish document –>
         <action id="document-publish" type="javascript" label="actions.document.publish">
            <param name="function">onActionPublish</param>
            <evaluator>evaluator.doclib.action.disableAction</evaluator>
         </action>
    </actions>
</config>
</alfresco-config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

3. Save the file.
4. Restart Tomcat
5. The action will not appear.

All I'm doing here is overriding the definition of the "document-publish" action, and I'm giving it a new evaluator that disables the action.

Jeff

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

ggates1 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:25:19 GMT

Ah yes I see you wrapped the action tag and changed the property of the evaluator to disable. This is slick…thanks i will give it a try. I assume I can do these with all the ui action I want to disable. Will this also work for View in Google maps ui action?

Thanks for the quick response

George

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

jpotts — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:48:55 GMT

George,

It should work for all actions.

Jeff

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

ggates1 — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:01:44 GMT

Jeff,

It there a way to remove UI Actions by user? As the extension takes is out for all.

Thanks
George

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

jpotts — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:21:40 GMT

You can look through the out-of-the-box evaluators in the Share web app to see what is available. If you grep for "<bean id=\"evaluator.doclib" you'll see they all live in slingshot-documentlibrary-context.xml. I do not see one that is based on username or group. The closest is "EditableByCurrentUser".

It is possible to write your own evaluator. It's just a Java class. So you could have an evaluator that would match on username or group name and then configure the specific user or group name in Spring, then point to the evaluator in your form config.

Jeff

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

nua76 — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:54:57 GMT

Hello jpotts

Thanks works fine on " publish" any chance to get the portion of code to hide workflows

thanks

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

jpotts — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:14:58 GMT

Sorry, NUA76, I don't know what you are asking for.

Jeff

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

nua76 — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:03:05 GMT

George ask you how to hide "publish" action on the document list action ,

i have followed your exemple and it works perfectly on my side "publish " action is hide

this is the portion of code to do it

<alfresco-config>
<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocLibActions">
    <actions>
         <!– Publish document –>
         <action id="document-publish" type="javascript" label="actions.document.publish">
            <param name="function">onActionPublish</param>
            <evaluator>evaluator.doclib.action.disableAction</evaluator>
         </action>
    </actions>
</config>
</alfresco-config>

you wrapped the action tag and changed the property of the evaluator to disable

my new query was , i want to do exactly the same with the "start worlflow action" ( hide the start workflow action )
my question was, can you write the code exemple to apply hiden action "start workflow "

ops:

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

jpotts — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:47:53 GMT

NUA76,

I see, thanks for clarifying. To hide the "Start Workflow" action you'd follow the exact same procedure. In that case, the action is called "document-assign-workflow", so to hide it, you'd do this:

         <!– Assign workflow –>
         <action id="document-assign-workflow" type="javascript" label="actions.document.assign-workflow">
            <param name="function">onActionAssignWorkflow</param>
            <evaluator>evaluator.doclib.action.disableAction</evaluator>
         </action>‍‍‍‍‍

If you are also hiding "document-publish" or some other action, add this immediately following the other action's "</action>" tag and before the "</actions>" tag.

Jeff

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

nua76 — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:19:31 GMT

Cool , i'm going to try and come back
thanks for your help

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

nua76 — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:40:18 GMT

jeff,

works perfectly , thanks
if you have time , another question. If i want to disable this action only for few role

<evaluator>evaluator.doclib.action.disableAction</evaluator>

how to disable action only for " consumer + editor + contributor " if possible ?

:wink:

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

nua76 — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:30:11 GMT

BY the way for people interesting in this post , you can read http://ecmarchitect.com/images/articles/alfresco-actions/actions-article-2ed.pdf from Jeff

hight level documentation for expert

Re: 4.0c removing UI actions works on windows but not in linux

ggates1 — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:27:51 GMT

Okay we are self imploding… here is our issue with 4.0d and implementing the share-config-custom.xml. Originally I deployed the share-config-custom.xml to

/opt/alfresco-4.0.d/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-extension directory with the UI ACTIONS disabled.

another employee was tasked to implement SSO and he placed the share-config-custom.xml in the directory

/opt/alfresco-4.0.d/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension

I suggested we combine changes into one share-config-custom.xml and we placed it in the /opt/alfresco-4.0.d/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension directory. with SSO commented out the UI ACTIONS were disabled, however when he rolled his SSO changes into the file the UI ACTIONS are ignored. So which
directory should we be deploying to? Is it possible to have multiple share-config-custom.xml in different directories?   When we combine the file and restart alfresco we get.

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provid
er.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

A server error has occured.

There are a number of reasons why this could have happened:

    You have attempted to access a page that does not exist - check the URL in the address bar.
    You have attempted to access a page that is not accessable to you, such as a private Site dashboard.
    A valid page has been requested but the server was unable to render it due to an internal error - contact your administrator.

Return to your dashboard page

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any insight will be much appreciated and I think you in advance for your help.

George