topic Reset favourites script in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reset-favourites-script/m-p/301856#M254986 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm searching for a solution to manage or better saying RESET specific user's favourites. For this purpose I didn't find a function or maybe webscript, so I tried writing one by myself.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I figured out that to reset someone's favourites from Admin account I need to send this POST content:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>{"org":{"alfresco":{"share":{"documents":{"favourites":""}}}}}<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>to this page:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><A href="http://localhost:8080/share/proxy/alfresco/api/people/USERNAME/preferences" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://localhost:8080/share/proxy/alfresco/api/people/USERNAME/preferences</A><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It works fine when I do it manually through Live Http Headers, but can't get it work within a script.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here how my JS script looks:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>var simplehttpresult = "no result";<BR />var xmlhttpresult = "no result";<BR />var error = "no error";<BR /> <BR />// try calling the web script a couple different ways<BR />try {<BR /> <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;//call the web service using SimpleHttpConnection<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;simplehttpresult = SimpleHttpConnection<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .getContentAsString("<A href="http://localhost:8080/share/proxy/alfresco/api/people/usernametest/preferences" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://localhost:8080/share/proxy/alfresco/api/people/usernametest/preferences</A>");<BR /> <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;//call the web service synchronously via XMLHttpRequest<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;XMLHttpRequest<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .open("POST", "<A href="http://localhost:8080/share/proxy/alfresco/api/people/usernametest/preferences" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://localhost:8080/share/proxy/alfresco/api/people/usernametest/preferences</A>",<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; false, "user", "pass");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Host", "localhost:8080");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Cookie", "_alfTest=_alfTest; JSESSIONID=72F1A690CC001AF5080B86854CA10542; alfLogin=1374511322; alfUsername3=admin");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;XMLHttpRequest.send("{\"org\":{\"alfresco\":{\"share\":{\"documents\":{\"favourites\":\"\"}}}}}");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;xmlhttpresult = XMLHttpRequest.getResponseText();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;XMLHttpRequest.close();<BR /> <BR />}catch(ex){error = String(ex)}<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How you can see I've used XMLHttpRequest to send the HTTP POST content, I found and installed the JAR library here:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://www.unorganizedmachines.com/site/software-and-technology/34-software-development/97-calling-web-services-from-alfresco-web-scripts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.unorganizedmachines.com/site/software-and-technology/34-software-development/97-calling-web-services-from-alfresco-web-scripts</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It works well when I'm trying to send a HTTP Request to an external site or page (example: </SPAN><A href="http://www.google.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.google.com</A><SPAN>) but it doesn't when I'm trying to reset favourites…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can someone help me about this??</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>There is not much documentation about managing favourites&nbsp; <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:21:38 GMT cristianfrog 2013-07-23T08:21:38Z Reset favourites script https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reset-favourites-script/m-p/301856#M254986 Hi all,I'm searching for a solution to manage or better saying RESET specific user's favourites. For this purpose I didn't find a function or maybe webscript, so I tried writing one by myself.I figured out that to reset someone's favourites from Admin account I need to send this POST content:{"org": Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:21:38 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reset-favourites-script/m-p/301856#M254986 cristianfrog 2013-07-23T08:21:38Z Re: Reset favourites script https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reset-favourites-script/m-p/301857#M254987 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Do you get any errors? I bet you get authentication errors. I'm not sure if you can use this same ticket for (technically) another session.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Zlatko</SPAN><BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:09:59 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/reset-favourites-script/m-p/301857#M254987 zladuric 2013-07-24T07:09:59Z