topic How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users in Alfresco Archive

How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

sara_gangale — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:18:51 GMT

Hi everyone,I'm trying to limit permission for all non-admin users. So far I managed to prevent non-admin users from creating new sites, the link is still there but when the user fills in the form and clicks OK he receives a permission denied message.I'd like to go further and automatically hide all

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

hgindl — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:34:19 GMT

without trying it, but you could try
https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/remove-welcome-dashlet-widget-alfresco-share

kind regards,
hannes

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

sara_gangale — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:12:21 GMT

thanks!
I found that yesterday, and it works perfectly
now I have to hide the create site link from the drop-down menu for all the non-admin users… any idea?
I don't know why this feature is not embedded… is it normal for all alfresco users to create new sites without any control?
thanks again!

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

hgindl — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:30:00 GMT

i think a good starting point for that would be

http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/dev-extensions-share-tutorials-custom-header-menu-item-removal.html

or

http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2013/09/04/customizing-the-share-header-menu-part-1/

In part 3 of this tutorial dave draper shows how to do it

additionally you have to customize the my-sites.get.js in tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets , set model.showCreateSite only if user.isAdmin

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

sara_gangale — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:47:35 GMT

First of all, i'm not a developer I'm a system engineer so I'm kinda lost in this things
I managed to create a new jar following the directions in the alfresco documentation, but I don't know how to modify the my-sites.get.js, if I simply edit it using notepad++ I receive a lot of errors after alfresco restart…
If I try to open the js file using Eclipse instead, it throws me another error (model is undefined)
I'm stuck, can you please help?
Thanks again

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

hgindl — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:07:00 GMT

its as easy as

1) navigate to (create if folder not exists)
tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets

2.) copy my-sites.get.js from tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets to tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets

3.) modify code in my-sites.get.js from

model.showCreateSite = true;‍

model.showCreateSite = user.isAdmin;‍

restart or reload share webscripts

check using admin account and normal account

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

angelborroy — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:42:57 GMT

You can do it by extending Alfresco rather than overwriting. This can help https://github.com/keensoft/alfresco-summit-2014/tree/master/10-enhancements/09-hide-create-site

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

hgindl — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:53:00 GMT

thats the best way

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

sara_gangale — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:34:36 GMT

hey, thanks for your useful answer.
I don't know how to install all those files: in the chapter "installation" they talk about amp and amp_share, and a script to run ro install them. But there are no .amp files to install, so what do I have to do? I thought I had to copy the files into the specifies directories (keeping the structure as seen in the link) but most of the folders are missing in my installation…
Sorry for the stupid question but again I'm a total newbie (but I want to learn )

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

sara_gangale — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:34:35 GMT

I tried to parse the share project using apache maven but I receive this error:

C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\hide_create_site>mvn
[INFO] Scanning for projects…
[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] The project (C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\hide_create_site\pom.xml)
has 1 error
[ERROR] Non-parseable POM C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\hide_create_site\po
m.xml: Expected root element 'project' but found 'html' (position: START_TAG see
n …<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en" class="">… @6:26) @ line 6, column 26 -
> [Help 2]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit
ch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea
d the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildin
gException
[ERROR] [Help 2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ModelParseExce
ption

can somebody help? thanks

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

hgindl — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:55:06 GMT

download the share extension here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvsiloig32ojypo/hide-create-site-share.amp?dl=0

kind regards

Re: How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

sara_gangale — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:38:00 GMT

fantastic, it works! thank you!