topic Re: How to hide aspect from UI in Alfresco Forum

How to hide aspect from UI

ajkr195 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 03:44:39 GMT

Environment: Alresco6.2 (Enterprise) /Oracle/Microsoft-Active Directory/RedHat

I added an aspect "Classifiable - Software Document Classification", to a site's folder using Share UI.

Now all users having Collaborator/Manager/Admin rights can modify/remove it.

Question:

How can I hide the aspect associated with a folder in Document Library of a site so that its not visible on UI? What are the steps?

How can I add an aspect using REST APIs ("ONLY") so that it is not visible on UI? What additional information in my JSON BODY should I send in order to make that aspect in-visible on UI to any user?

Re: How to hide aspect from UI

EddieMay — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:01:03 GMT

Hi @ajkr195

Have you looked at this post on Evaluators & Surf Extensions?

HTH

Re: How to hide aspect from UI

ajkr195 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:36:42 GMT

We use enterprise wars provided by ALF only and we are not using ALF SDK. I was wodering if somthing like (just a thought) http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/AlfrescoOne/5.0/PublicAPI/org/alfresco/repo/model/filefolder/HiddenAspect.html is available for version 6.1+. Thanks a lot for your help though. I am seeking help from other experts too here.

Re: How to hide aspect from UI

ajkr195 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 14:18:52 GMT

Even this will work for us if we can restrict it to Admin Users only. - https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-content-services-forum/restrict-manage-aspects-to-site-managers/m-p/245756#M13741

Now the question is -

Where we put this change in share-config-custom.xml?

Which section we should replace/edit for it?

Any help in this regarded will be greatly appreciated.

Re: How to hide aspect from UI

abhinavmishra14 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:05:51 GMT

Can you please clarify your question?

-> Do you want to hide folders from selected users/groups etc.?

-> Do you want to hide manage aspect action ?

"HiddenAspect" is used for a different purposes.

It is recommended to embrace SDK, because sooner or later you would need it as you get more custom requests to enhance your system.

Re: How to hide aspect from UI

abhinavmishra14 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:09:59 GMT

@ajkr195 wrote:

Even this will work for us if we can restrict it to Admin Users only. - https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-content-services-forum/restrict-manage-aspects-to-site-managers/m-p/245756#M13741

Now the question is -

Where we put this change in share-config-custom.xml?

Which section we should replace/edit for it?

Any help in this regarded will be greatly appreciated.

Yes, this is a share config change. Since you are not using SDK as of now, you can add the config available at:

$TOMCAT_HOME/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml

Note, if you are using docker containers, any changes made to containers will be lost when you restart them. So in that case, make the updates with help of DockerFile