topic Re: Alfr-Community-5.2 Site template VS copying sites in Alfresco Forum

Alfr-Community-5.2 Site template VS copying sites

aladme — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:50:50 GMT

Hi all, I'm planning to create around 200 sites (one by client), I've created the first one, I've tunned the site dashboard, rules on the site .... Do I need to repeat all this steps for every Customer Site?It's possible to copy a site with anothe name?Thanks a lot.

Re: Alfr-Community-5.2 Site template VS copying sites

mehe — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:57:38 GMT

Hi there,

I didn't use it until now but there are site presets: Site presets | Alfresco Documentation

maybe this helps...

Re: Alfr-Community-5.2 Site template VS copying sites

cesarista — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:33:17 GMT

And site space templates too:

GitHub - jpotts/share-site-space-templates: Adds the ability to create a default set of folders in an Alfresco Share sit…

Finally, you can use rest API to create sites, with some defined site space templates (and their corresponding presets), that can be invoked programmatically via curl for example.

Regards.

--C.

Re: Alfr-Community-5.2 Site template VS copying sites

afaust — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:23:11 GMT

Site presets are extremely valuable for having sites with identical dashboard configurations. They do not affect the content structure, but since the preset is stored as a property on the site you could implement a custom behaviour to lookup a space template in Data Dictionary and use that to initialise the site doclib structure.