topic Guest User Start Location in Alfresco Archive

Guest User Start Location

samudaya — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:38:20 GMT

Dear Friends,How to set Guest login to Guest Home as default Start Location?ThanksSamudaya

Re: Guest User Start Location

samudaya — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:15:26 GMT

Hi Alfresco friends,

Anybody have an idea how to handle this issue?

Thank you very much……….
Samudaya

Re: Guest User Start Location

romschn — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:53:00 GMT

The default initial location set for each user is defined in ClientConfigElement.java as myalfresco.

So, when each user logs into alfresco, he/she would be redirected to myalfresco page. For users other than guest, you can change the initial location through alfresco webclient as below.
Goto User profile -> General Preferences -> Start Location. (You can select anyone from My Alfresco/Company Home/My Home/Guest Home).

To set the start location as guest home for guest user as default, you can handle this with a bit of the customization as shown below.

1. Customize NavigationBean class.
2. In getToolbarLocation() method, add below entry for your specific requirement.
     if(AuthenticationUtil.getRunAsUser() != null && "guest".equalsIgnoreCase(AuthenticationUtil.getRunAsUser())) {
       this.preferences.setStartLocation(NavigationBean.LOCATION_GUEST);
       return NavigationBean.LOCATION_GUEST;
   }

I have not tried running this but this should work and should show the guest home as the start location for guest user login.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Re: Guest User Start Location

samudaya — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:12:50 GMT

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. However I can't find the file which I have to edit.

Thanks
Samudaya

Re: Guest User Start Location

romschn — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:16:46 GMT

As I mentioned in my previous post, you need to customize NavigationBean class and need to put code as suggested above in that.

Re: Guest User Start Location

samudaya — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:30:53 GMT

Hi,

Can you please send your previous post URL.

Thanks