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Globally disable Activity Feed Notifications for all users

Evgenia_Patsoni — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:32:45 GMT

Hello,

We run Alfresco v7.0.0 using docker deployment (from https://www.npmjs.com/package/generator-alfresco-docker-installer).

Recently we also connected alfresco with our smtp server, and since then we automatically started receiving notification emails:
1) Once per day we receive a "Recent activities" mail that includes all activities that took place at sites we're members of.
2) Email notifications each time we are being added to a new site.

We are currently looking for a way to stop receiving such emails, ideally through the UI, and without having to update our docker-compose.yml. Is there a way we can achieve this globally for all users?

At the moment while being logged in as Administrator we found that there is an option to disable Activity Feeds under: Sites --> My Sites --> Disable Activity Feeds. For example:

However our impression is that this will only be applied to the Administrator's account. Is this correct?
In addition, if there is no way to globally disable Recent activity emails for all users through the UI, how should we update our docker-compose.yml?

Thank you in advance.

Re: Globally disable Activity Feed Notifications for all users

angelborroy — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:33:22 GMT

There is no option from the UI, but you can add following environment variables to you alfresco service in docker-compose.yml

activities.feed.notifier.enabled=false
activities.feed.cleaner.enabled=false
activities.feed.generator.enabled=false
activities.post.cleaner.enabled=false
activities.post.lookup.enabled=false
activities.feed.notifier.enabled=false

Re: Globally disable Activity Feed Notifications for all users

Evgenia_Patsoni — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:37:14 GMT

Hello angelborroy,

Thanks for the fast reply.

I will try adding these env variables then. Just one more question.
Do all of these need to be set as false to deactivate the emails?

For example, can we set these 2 variables to true in order to keep viewing recent activities under the "My Activities" tab of Alfresco Share Dashboard, or will that cause the emails to be sent as well? :
- activities.feed.cleaner.enabled
- activities.feed.generator.enabled

Re: Globally disable Activity Feed Notifications for all users

angelborroy — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:22:19 GMT

You will find additional details on feeds in

https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-community-repo/blob/master/repository/src/main/resources/alfresco/subsystems/ActivitiesFeed/default/activities-jobs.properties

You may disable just only "notifier" (emails) by setting

activities.feed.notifier.enabled=false