topic Re: 5.0 Removing menu items from header bar in Alfresco Archive

5.0 Removing menu items from header bar

gregk — Fri, 08 May 2015 10:40:22 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to remove various menu items from the UI for non-admin users. I've created an extension as discussed in:http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2013/09/04/customizing-the-share-header-menu-part-1/This extended the original ../webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/al

Re: 5.0 Removing menu items from header bar

gregk — Tue, 12 May 2015 07:47:04 GMT

I've managed to get around this in the short term by duplicating the contents of my modified share-header.get.js in an overridden version of faceted-search.get.js. My menu changes now appear on the faceted search as well as everywhere else. This isn't future proof though because as soon as any other pages/sections start to import the share-header.lib.js they'll have to be overridden too. Is there no easy way of overriding the lib.js ?

Thanks,

Re: 5.0 Removing menu items from header bar

hardik1512 — Wed, 13 May 2015 13:00:09 GMT

Hello,

you can try what david draper has suggested in below post.
https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/web-scripts/share-headergetjs-extension-override-doesnt-always-work

Re: 5.0 Removing menu items from header bar

ddraper — Sun, 17 May 2015 13:24:42 GMT

The <alwaysApply> approach will work to address this problem (as described in the forum post lined by Hardik) - this is how we've implemented the extension in the Alfresco Cloud offering.

Re: 5.0 Removing menu items from header bar

gregk — Mon, 18 May 2015 08:09:28 GMT

Hi Both,

Thanks for the assistance, I've just been able to test this change but it doesn't seem to work. With the suggested changes my extension xml now looks like this:


<customization>
  <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco.share.header</targetPackageRoot>
  <sourcePackageRoot>org.me.share.header</sourcePackageRoot>
</customization>
<customization>
  <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco.share.pages</targetPackageRoot>
  <sourcePackageRoot>org.me.share.pages</sourcePackageRoot>
  <alwaysApply>
    <webscript>share-header</webscript>
  </alwaysApply>
</customization>
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Note org/me/share/pages is now empty because I'm not overriding the facet search js (that does work but probably isn't future proof).
For the cloud offering you seem to be overriding the pages directory with the header one. EG:


<customization>
  <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco.share.pages</targetPackageRoot>
  <sourcePackageRoot>org.alfresco.cloud.core.customizations.share.header</sourcePackageRoot>
  <alwaysApply>
    <webscript>share-header</webscript>
  </alwaysApply>
</customization>
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Should I be overriding the facet search js file or do I just need for the share/pages directory to be over-ridden for the alwaysApply to take affect.

I'm just going to try another couple of tests…

Thanks

Re: 5.0 Removing menu items from header bar

gregk — Mon, 18 May 2015 08:50:00 GMT

I've got it working…

To summarise:

I created my own share-header.get.js with just my alterations and placed it in a tomcat shared location with the ending path defined in the extension xml

Original file:
../webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/share/header/share-header.get.js
My file with just my customisations:
../shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/…./me/share/header/share-header.get.js


<customization>
  <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco.share.header</targetPackageRoot>
  <sourcePackageRoot>org.me.share.header</sourcePackageRoot>
</customization>
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I then added an extension definition for the containing folder of the faceted-search.get.js but pointed this to the same source package as the share header path and set the alwaysApply option:


<customization>
  <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco.share.header</targetPackageRoot>
  <sourcePackageRoot>org.me.share.header</sourcePackageRoot>
</customization>
<customization>
  <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco.share.pages</targetPackageRoot>
  <sourcePackageRoot>org.me.share.header</sourcePackageRoot>
  <alwaysApply>
    <webscript>share-header</webscript>
  </alwaysApply>
</customization>
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Note:
target: org.alfresco.share.<strong>pages</strong>
source: org.me.share.<strong>header</strong>

This does work ok and should cover any new pages/features that arrive in the share/pages folder.

Hopefully that helps someone else!
Apologies for posting this in the wrong discussion!..I guess I started with the mindset of assuming the menu would end user configurable…

Thanks for the help!

Re: 5.0 Removing menu items from header bar

zio3d — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:29:45 GMT

The link:

http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2013/09/04/customizing-the-share-header-menu-part-1/

is now:

https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2013/09/04/customizing-the-share-header-menu-part-1