topic Custom Action with Parameter: How can I restrict the choice to a single user? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-action-with-parameter-how-can-i-restrict-the-choice-to-a/m-p/293110#M246240 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I added a custom action to set the value of a custom property "contact person". Now I need a form control that let's the user choose an existing user. I tried authority.ftl, but that way it is possible to select groups as well as single users.</P><P>This is part of my share-config-custom.xml:</P><P></P><PRE>&lt;!-- Actions --&gt;<BR />&lt;config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocLibActions"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;actions&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action id="assign-contact-person" type="javascript" label="actions.assign-cp" icon="assign-cp"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;param name="function"&gt;onActionFormDialog&lt;/param&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;param name="itemKind"&gt;action&lt;/param&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;param name="itemId"&gt;assign-cp&lt;/param&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;param name="mode"&gt;create&lt;/param&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;param name="destination"&gt;{node.nodeRef}&lt;/param&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;param name="successMessage"&gt;message.assign-cp.success&lt;/param&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;param name="failureMessage"&gt;message.assign-cp.failure&lt;/param&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;permissions&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;permission allow="true"&gt;Write&lt;/permission&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/permissions&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/action&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/actions&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;actionGroups&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;actionGroup id="document-browse"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action index="500" id="assign-contact-person" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/actionGroup&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;actionGroup id="document-details"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action index="500" id="assign-contact-person" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/actionGroup&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/actionGroups&gt;<BR />&lt;/config&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;config evaluator="string-compare" condition="assign-cp"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;forms&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;form&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;field-visibility&gt; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;show id="contactPerson"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/field-visibility&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;appearance&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;field id="contactPerson" label="Contact Person"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;control template="/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/authority.ftl"/&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/field&gt; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/appearance&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/form&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/forms&gt;<BR />&lt;/config&gt;</PRE><P><BR />I would also follow a different approach, allowing end users to edit the custom property via "Edit Properties" - then I would need a custom constraint that makes sure that only existing user names can be selected. Is there any way to achieve this?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:45:09 GMT heike 2016-12-05T10:45:09Z Custom Action with Parameter: How can I restrict the choice to a single user? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-action-with-parameter-how-can-i-restrict-the-choice-to-a/m-p/293110#M246240 I added a custom action to set the value of a custom property "contact person". Now I need a form control that let's the user choose an existing user. I tried authority.ftl, but that way it is possible to select groups as well as single users.This is part of my share-config-custom.xml:&lt;!-- Action Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:45:09 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-action-with-parameter-how-can-i-restrict-the-choice-to-a/m-p/293110#M246240 heike 2016-12-05T10:45:09Z Re: Custom Action with Parameter: How can I restrict the choice to a single user? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-action-with-parameter-how-can-i-restrict-the-choice-to-a/m-p/293111#M246241 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello.</P><P></P><P>Please, check this out <A class="link-titled" href="https://github.com/douglascrp/alfresco-group-member-control" title="https://github.com/douglascrp/alfresco-group-member-control" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">GitHub - douglascrp/alfresco-group-member-control: Custom form control that allows you to select users only from a speci…</A>&nbsp;</P><P>I believe you can try to use the custom form control provided by this project as a starting point to you to customize the control to show only users.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:57:03 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/custom-action-with-parameter-how-can-i-restrict-the-choice-to-a/m-p/293111#M246241 douglascrp 2016-12-09T01:57:03Z