topic Re: 5.0.a restrict users from creating sites in Alfresco Archive

5.0.a restrict users from creating sites

mraugh — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:27:42 GMT

I'm trying out 5.0.a Community at a government location and I can't find anywhere that I can restrict non-admin users from creating new sites. The documentation for v5.0.a talks about editing files in tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\model but I have no such directory and the .dtd f

Re: 5.0.a restrict users from creating sites

jpotts — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:16:07 GMT

You don't need to edit anything in the content model to turn off the create sites link. However, because you asked, it looks like a lot of the files that were packaged under WEB-INF/classes prior to 5.0 have been moved to JARs that live in WEB-INF/lib. One possible motivation for that is to make it a little harder for people to change those. Although they make a good reference, they should never be edited, so I'm glad they've been moved.

Back to your original question, unless there is a new feature in 5.0.a that provides this functionality, there is no way to turn off site creation without extending the Share UI with a module. The module could use the group membership evaluator to simply remove the link for users who aren't administrators.

Jeff

Re: 5.0.a restrict users from creating sites

mraugh — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:04:40 GMT

Well, that explains why the files the docs say to edit aren't there.

Seriously, though, is this just a Community thing or does the Enterprise version follow the same model? Maybe my mind is warped by NIST 800-53, but I can't conceive of an environment where it would be reasonable to allow any user to create new sites at will. Is there a library of modules somewhere, something like Nagios Exchange for Nagios plug-ins, or do I have to pay a Java developer to study the docs and write this module?

Thanks,

-MR

Re: 5.0.a restrict users from creating sites

jpotts — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:59:38 GMT

Community and Enterprise are virtually the same software with differences being around administrative and scale-out (like clustering). So this functionality is identical between the two versions.

The library of modules is at http://addons.alfresco.com.

Jeff

Re: 5.0.a restrict users from creating sites

parashiftaustra — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:05:21 GMT

Hi All,
Parashift have created a Para Module to this solution. Have a look here: https://www.parashift.com.au/site-restrictions/