topic Re: Little issue after upgrade in Alfresco Archive

Little issue after upgrade

lynx_deb — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 09:36:38 GMT

Hi guys,i've upgrade an Alfresco 3.3.0 to 4.1. Finally I can use the "show all" under user management because before i received an exception (may be some break nodes). So.. listing these users (we don't use LDAP or AD) i've found a "null" user.There is no username assigned and cannot be deleted b

Re: Little issue after upgrade

afaust — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:08:11 GMT

Hello,

have you talked with Alfresco Support about this? Have you followed the upgrade procedures?
At the moment, my best bet for you to delete the person is by writing a simple Java patch that calls PersonService.deletePerson(NodeRef) directly. All of the Alfresco UIs call PersonService.deletePerson(String) which causes your problem.

Regards
Axel

Re: Little issue after upgrade

lynx_deb — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:54:00 GMT

i'm trying to call support but without success..

How i can find the nodeRef about "null" user? Also.. is it possible to use a Webscript instead of Java code? I'm not a developer

thanks!

Re: Little issue after upgrade

afaust — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:02:20 GMT

Hello,

unfortunately, you can't use a JavaScript webscript since the necesary API to delete a person by NodeRef is not available in the JavaScript API. Your administrator should be able to find the NodeRef of the user via the NodeBrowser tool by issueing a search query along the line of

+TYPE:"cm:person" +ISNULL:"cm:userName"‍

.

Regards
Axel