topic Re: need to customise navigator in Alfresco Archive

need to customise navigator

pallavi_jain — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:15:00 GMT

For my project, I need to customise the navigator which appears on the left side of alfresco explorer.REQUIREMENTS: no user should be able to view my home, guest home and my alfresco, that is only Company home should be visible to users whereas all 4 links should be accessible to admin.how to achiev

Re: need to customise navigator

mitpatoliya — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:09:05 GMT

you can overrride that jsp by adding one config in your web-client-config-custom.xml


 <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Sidebar">
      <sidebar>
         <!– the list of plugins available in the sidebar –>
         <plugins>
            <plugin id="navigator" label-id="navigator" description-id="navigator_desc" 
                    page="/jsp/extension/sidebar/navigator.jsp" actions-config-id="navigator_actions" />
    </plugins>
  </sidebar>
 </config>
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create your own jsp where you can add those other parts conditionally.

Re: need to customise navigator

pallavi_jain — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:43:00 GMT

hey..
thanks for replying
your reply is helpful.

but in original navigator.jsp it shows just a single line, that is

<r:navigator id="navigator" activeArea="#{NavigationBean.toolbarLocation}" />

does that mean that this NavigationBean is to be overrided and if yes, then how?

Re: need to customise navigator

mitpatoliya — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:07:30 GMT

It is custom JSF tag implemented by alfresco.
UINavigator class is responsible for rendering whatever you see in that jsp.

Re: need to customise navigator

pallavi_jain — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:13:37 GMT

thank you mitpatoliya..
i have found out that the changes are to be made in UINavigator.java

but if I make the required changes in java code, make a jar file and place it in WEB-INF/lib, the changes are not reflected.
Do I need to configure anything else?
Any kind of help is welcome

i have also followed this link:

http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=94

Re: need to customise navigator

pallavi_jain — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:51:00 GMT

my problem is solved
thanks for you support.
there was one mapping from faces-config-repo.xml that was to be overridden
thanks

Re: need to customise navigator

mitpatoliya — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:49:32 GMT

Yes, that is the way to do it,
Congratulation