topic Alfresco ignore some webscripts or templates modifications in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco ignore some webscripts or templates modifications

logxjb — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:43:28 GMT

Hello,I'm using Alfresco community 4.2I've created an AMP share module in Maven for customization and I edited several templates files, essentially commenting out/deleting some unwanted functionnalities to clean the user interface.For some of the templates files, my modification are taken in account

Re: Alfresco ignore some webscripts or templates modifications

afaust — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:31:14 GMT

Hello,

the collaboration-navigation web script is no longer used in Alfresco 4.2 as far as I know. It still exists, but all of its functionality has been moved to share-header, so the widgets can be customized much liked the global header.

Regards
Axel

Re: Alfresco ignore some webscripts or templates modifications

logxjb — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:23:09 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for your answer, following you advice, I had a look at the share-header.get.js file which led me to share-header.lib.js under the share/imports directory.

I've edited the file like this in my AMP: https://gist.github.com/jberthet/92998abc1f1eed83d81f

I just commented push instructions for unwanted menu items (app menu and site menu).

Anyway, those modifications are totally ignored by Alfresco share after deploiement.

What am I doing wrong ?

Regards,
Jérémy

Re: Alfresco ignore some webscripts or templates modifications

afaust — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:41:17 GMT

Hello,

you should not be editing share-header.lib.js directly.

First of all, if you deploy that to /web-extension/ it will not be picked up, because the share-header.get.js looks up the file using a specific path without the /web-extension/. As a general rule of thumb you can never override a .lib.js using /web-extension/ without overriding the relevant .get.js as well (changing the import path).

Second of all, you do not need to change that file. The best practice approach is to use a Share / Surf Customization to work on the widget model of the header. See the blog of Dave Draper, e.g. <a href="http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2013/09/04/customizing-the-share-header-menu-part-1/">the first post of a three-part series on the new header</a> or <a href="http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2013/11/25/webscript-javascript-controller-extensions-recap/">this recap of JavaScript controller extensions</a>.

Regards
Axel

Re: Alfresco ignore some webscripts or templates modifications

logxjb — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 12:56:36 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for your help … extensions modules works far better than trying to replace existing files with my own version.

Problem solved.

Regards,
Jérémy