topic Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group in Alfresco Forum

Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

pedwards99 — Thu, 17 May 2018 10:12:18 GMT

Hi there,I'm trying to create a custom Share property form (for a workflow task) where the requirement for one of the properties is that it must only be editable by members of the Site Manager group i.e if the user is a member of the Site Manager group I want to display a text field, otherwise just

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

angelborroy — Thu, 17 May 2018 10:33:12 GMT

How about invoking Alfresco Repo Rest API from control FTL to check if user is Site Manager?

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

pedwards99 — Thu, 17 May 2018 10:44:17 GMT

Thanks Angel, I was actually just looking into how that could be done when you replied.

Have you ever come across any posts with examples?

Paul

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

angelborroy — Thu, 17 May 2018 10:54:46 GMT

Something like this one:

https://github.com/keensoft/alfresco-datalist-constraints/blob/master/datalist-model-share/src/main/amp/config/alfresco/web-extension/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/datalistSelectone.ftl#L85

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

pedwards99 — Thu, 17 May 2018 12:43:14 GMT

Thanks Angel.

I'm not sure if that will work directly (or maybe I'm doing something wrong). Is Alfresco.Utils.Ajax.jsonGet available in Share FTL or do I need to do something special to import it?

Paul

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

angelborroy — Thu, 17 May 2018 12:49:48 GMT

Probably you are missing this include:

alfresco-datalist-constraints/datalistSelectone.ftl at master · keensoft/alfresco-datalist-constraints · GitHub

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

angelborroy — Thu, 17 May 2018 12:52:47 GMT

No, it was not in that import...

You should be able to access JavaScript Object Alfresco.util.Ajax from your FTL.

Where are you developing your extension? Is it a new form control?

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

pedwards99 — Thu, 17 May 2018 13:43:51 GMT

Yes ! That was the problem.

I can now call the API and get the result back in Javascript. I'm guessing I now have to use javascript to construct the entire control .... or is there a way to use the javascript value in FTL, something like <#if isSiteManager> ?

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

pedwards99 — Thu, 17 May 2018 13:44:54 GMT

Ah, maybe it was working all the time and just a bug in my JS?

Its a new form control (based on textarea.ftl)

Re: Custom Form Controls Based on User Role/Group

pedwards99 — Thu, 17 May 2018 15:23:59 GMT

Got it it working. In the end, I let FTL build the form then use JS to disable the field that I don't want edited - much easier than trying to build the form in JS.

Thanks for your help !

My code below for anyone interested. (Currently only works for one site, but that could be changed)

<#include "/org/alfresco/components/form/controls/common/utils.inc.ftl" />

<#if field.control.params.rows??><#assign rows=field.control.params.rows><#else><#assign rows=3></#if>

<#if field.control.params.columns??><#assign columns=field.control.params.columns><#else><#assign columns=60></#if>

<#if form.mode == "view">

<#if field.mandatory && field.value == "">

</#if>

<span class="viewmode-label">${field.label?html}:</span>

<#if field.control.params.activateLinks?? && field.control.params.activateLinks == "true">

<#assign fieldValue=field.value?html?replace("((http|ftp|https):\\/\\/[\\w\\-_]+(\\.[\\w\\-_]+)+([\\w\\-\\.,@?\\^=%&:\\/~\\+#]*[\\w\\-\\@?\\^=%&\\/~\\+#])?)", "<a href=\"$1\" target=\"_blank\">$1</a>", "r")>

<#else>

<#assign fieldValue=field.value?html>

</#if>

<span class="viewmode-value"><#if fieldValue == "">${msg("form.control.novalue")}<#else>${fieldValue}</#if></span>

</div>

<#else>

Alfresco.util.Ajax.jsonGet({

url: encodeURI(Alfresco.constants.PROXY_URI + "/api/sites/my-site/memberships/${user.name}"),

successCallback:

{

fn: function loadWebscript_successCallback(response, config)

{

var obj = eval('(' + response.serverResponse.responseText + ')');

if (obj)

{

var isSiteManager = (obj.role == "SiteManager");

if (!isSiteManager) {

var textarea = document.getElementById("${fieldHtmlId}");

textarea.disabled=true;

}

failureCallback: {

fn: function failedToGetUserMembership(response, config)

{

window.alert("Error getting user role from Site. Change Note Title will be disabled.");

var textarea = document.getElementById("${fieldHtmlId}");

textarea.disabled=true;

}

});

//]]></script>

<label for="${fieldHtmlId}">${field.label?html}:<#if field.mandatory><span class="mandatory-indicator">${msg("form.required.fields.marker")}</span></#if></label>

<@formLib.renderFieldHelp field=field />

<textarea id="${fieldHtmlId}" name="${field.name}" rows="${rows}" cols="${columns}" tabindex="0"

<#if field.description??>title="${field.description}"</#if>

<#if field.control.params.styleClass??>class="${field.control.params.styleClass}"</#if>

<#if field.control.params.style??>style="${field.control.params.style}"</#if>

<#if field.control.params.maxLength??>maxlength="${field.control.params.maxLength}"<#else>maxlength="1024"</#if>

<#if field.disabled && !(field.control.params.forceEditable?? && field.control.params.forceEditable == "true")>disabled="true"</#if>>${field.value?html}</textarea>

</#if>

</div>