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Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

rmahajan — Mon, 11 May 2015 17:37:17 GMT

Hello,In the faceted search results page when you click on the “Actions” menu for a row, it asynchronously gets the list of allowed actions. It looks like there is a filter defined in AlfSearchResult.js that restricts the allowed actions to actions currently supported by the Aikau action service.We

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

ddraper — Thu, 21 May 2015 06:28:39 GMT

We're in the process of improving both the support for existing Document Library actions within Aikau as well as improving the way in which custom actions can be mixed with a selection of the default actions. Unfortunately at the present time we're still a long way from completing this effort. Your best bet at the moment would be to specify pure custom actions (using the "customActions" attribute (defined in the _ActionsMixin module) and then duplicate the existing action modules that you want to support.

Alternatively you could look to extend the XhrActions widget with your own version and then augment the actions with the additional items you wish to provide.

In both these cases you would need to extend or replace the AlfSearchView to include your custom module (e.g. you could extend AlfSearchView and override the "widgets" array to either be your own view (created entirely as a JSON model) or reference an extension to the AlfSearchResult.

The reason we have a specific AlfSearchResult widget (rather than a model of layout and renderer widgets) is because this provides a performance improvement in rendering. However, the faceted search page will still work with any view constructed using the techniques described in the Aikau Tutorial that you can find on GitHub (e.g. https://github.com/Alfresco/Aikau/blob/master/tutorial/chapters/Contents.md)

Regards,
Dave

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

pl_componize — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:14:38 GMT

Hello can I have an update on this, do we have a standard way to configure this now in one of the release?

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

ddraper — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 10:01:31 GMT

It's now possible to mix-and-match "legacy" Document Library actions (i.e. those that are defined in the share-documentlibrary-config.xml file), pure custom menu items that can be configured to perform actions and pure Aikau actions (of which there a currently limited set). An example of this can be seen in the Aikau unit test page here: https://github.com/Alfresco/Aikau/blob/d5b54c8d2b33bb7bfff804d59c56ac209aeb9a1b/aikau/src/test/resources/testApp/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/alfresco/renderers/Actions.get.js

The key configuration attribute is "mergeActions" (see http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/aikau-jsdoc/_ActionsMixin.html).

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

anooj_agarwal — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:17:58 GMT

Hi Dave,

Do we have a process of rendering actions on search results page based on user site role. For example I need to remove delete-action for a set of people with a role say "custom-role". I have gone through the following set of files AlfSearchResult.js. Action.js, _ActionsMixin.js, XhrActions.js, _XhrActionsMixin.js and ActionService.js. I found that when I remove a action it gets removed for the users. I want to restrict to only a set of users. As I am a Newbie to Aikau Please suggest what needs to be followed.

Thanks & Regards,
Anooj Agarwal.

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

parashiftaustra — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:16:24 GMT

I've created a blog about adding custom actions to faceted search here:

https://www.parashift.com.au/2016/06/28/adding-custom-action-shares-faceted-search/

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

janaka1984 — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 07:33:56 GMT

Hi Dave,

how can i disable or invisible action button from search result in alfresco advance search?

do i need to override createActionsRenderer function and set as onlyShowOnHover:false ?

regards

janaka

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

ddraper — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:31:04 GMT

janaka _ Could you try to avoid cross posting questions on multiple threads ... you've asked this here and I've provided an answer.

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

ddraper — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:33:11 GMT

That's a great blog post ... my only observation would be that you may want to consider creating the action subscriber as a service rather than a widget.

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

gaurav_sharma — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:10:54 GMT

I tried with "merge-actions" approach and added “Edit Properties” action in faceted page.
widgets: [
{
id: “FCTSRCH_SEARCH_RESULT”,
name: “alfresco/search/AlfSearchResult”,
config: {
enableContextMenu: false,
showSelector: true,
mergeActions : true,
additionalDocumentAndFolderActions : [“document-edit-properties”]
}
}
]

And I am able to see "Edit Properties" action.But only three metadata fields are being displayed once we click on Edit Properties action at faceted page(Name,Title,description).Also, I have configured share-config-custom.xml for edit metadata pop up form and I can see the custom properties when I go through document library –> "edit properties" action pop up.

But at search results page, only Name,Title,Description are being displayed.Kindly help.I am using Enterprise 5.1.1.
Also, Why edit properties action is not available out of the box at faceted page?

Re: Faceted Search Results Page - How to include Custom actions in the 'Actions' menu for a row

ddraper — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:48:52 GMT

The reason why the "Edit Properties" action is not available out of the box in faceted search is because the search page is implemented by Aikau and the edit properties (as found in the Document Library) is implemented using the old YUI2 components. We have an epic for porting all the Document Library actions to Aikau (see [AKU-194] Document Library Actions - Alfresco JIRA ) but have not completed it yet (and actually aren't actively working on it at the moment).

The other reason why Edit Properties in particular wasn't implemented was because it relies upon the Share Forms Runtime - and this is not supported out-of-the-box for Aikau. I have however been doing some work to create a mapping between the Share forms runtime and Aikau (see https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2016/07/08/aikau-1076-form-runtime-support and related blog posts).

There has been no drive from the product management team to integrate this fully into the core product yet though. However, you should be able to make use of what is available through Aikau to implement your requirements for Edit Properties.