topic Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community) in Alfresco Archive

Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

chrisharris — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:37:47 GMT

If anyone can help me get it to where only myself and other admins (and possibly site managers) have the ability to create sites and Consumer, Contributor and Collaborators could not that would be grand.

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

hardik1512 — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 07:02:54 GMT

Hello,

Follow the steps mentioned in this blog post.
http://hardikkacholia.blogspot.in/2015/09/customizing-alfresco-50-share-header.html

This will help you to hide Create site menu from non-admin users.

Note :- If the war files are exploded again, then these changes might get lost. So either you should keep backup OR you can use tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension path instead of
tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\web-extension.

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

angelborroy — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:07:00 GMT

Use Jeff Potts addon: https://github.com/jpotts/share-site-creators

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

chrisharris — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:26:34 GMT

I was looking at that but was not sure how to install it 😕

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

angelborroy — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:38:02 GMT

If you are using Alfresco 5.0.d, you can use compiled AMPs artifacts at https://github.com/angelborroy/share-site-creators/releases

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

chrisharris — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:07:43 GMT

Where do i put those files? Sorry I'm new to all this.

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

angelborroy — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:22:12 GMT

Read "Install the AMPs section" at https://github.com/jpotts/share-site-creators

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

chrisharris — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:42:29 GMT

Alright I got it installed and it successfully has hidden the create sites.
My problem now is even after creating GROUP_SITE_CREATORS and adding ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS I cannot create sites still as the admin.
Not sure if I am missing something 😕

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

drisschelouati — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:49:46 GMT

Hi friend, here is how to proceed : (alfresco_root being the convention to name your alfresco installation folder like C:\Alfresco or opt/Alfresco)

1- Shut down your Alfresco server and make a backup of you WAR files in Alfresco_root/tomcat/webapps (share.war ; alfresco.war)

2- Copy share-site-creators-repo.amp in Alfresco_root/amps

3- Copy share-site-creators-share.amp in Alfresco_root/amps_share

4- Install AMPs by going to Alfresco_root/bin

for Windows : execute the file apply_amps.bat
for Linux : execute the file apply_amps.sh

5- Let the script run,(you'll be eventually prompted to press a key) it will automatically install your AMPs.

6- When it finishes, youll be informed that your AMPs were applied successfully. In the same folder, execute clean_tomcat.bat or clean_tomcat.sh depending on the OS youre using (this prepares the WARs to be redeployed at tomcat restart).

7- Start your Alfresco server and follow the instructions supplied with the extension to use it.

8- Enjoy!

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

drisschelouati — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:51:00 GMT

create the group simply as SITE_CREATORS, Alfresco adds "GROUP_" on its own i think

Edit: quoting the install intructions from https://github.com/jpotts/share-site-creators:

"By default, the group the module looks for must have an ID of "GROUP_SITE_CREATORS". The display name can be anything. When you create the group you do not specify "GROUP_"–Alfresco will prepend that for you."

Re: Limit site creation access to Admins only (5.0 Community)

chrisharris — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:35:26 GMT

that did it, thank you!