topic Re: Apply admin user-dashboard config on all users in Alfresco Forum

Apply admin user-dashboard config on all users

abrarte — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:15:19 GMT

Hi,I'd like to modify user-dashboard logic as following :Allow the admin to apply user-dashboard configuration to all users created: I thought about modifying webscript controller "customise-dashboard.post.json.js" in order to apply the configuration on all users on the system. But i'm not sure it's

Re: Apply admin user-dashboard config on all users

douglascrp — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:41:45 GMT

There are some tutorials available on the topic, but with a slightly different approach, which is to set a default dashboard by customizing the preset.xml and then reset all the dashboards.

These are the links:

ITD Systems company blog — Dropping Alfresco user dashboard configuration

Script to reset user dashboard in Alfresco. Actually two scripts in same Gist. To be used with the Alfresco Javascript c…

If you were using a newer alfresco version, like 5.0, you could use this addon GitHub - OrderOfTheBee/ootbee-support-tools: OOTBee Support Tools addon to extend set of administrative tools on Reposit…

Re: Apply admin user-dashboard config on all users

abrarte — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:16:12 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

The problem is that i want to edit default configuration dynamically after each admin customization of dashboard.

It's not a good idea to update "presets.xml" beacause we need to restart the server everytime.

Re: Apply admin user-dashboard config on all users

afaust — Thu, 04 May 2017 08:17:28 GMT

As one of the developers for OOTBee Support Tools I can say that we are planning to extend the current functionality to make it possible to apply batch updates / changes to dashboards. This could include making those changes based on a "reference" dashboard, e.g. use admin dashboard as a template.

Re: Apply admin user-dashboard config on all users

abrarte — Thu, 04 May 2017 10:55:32 GMT

That will be great! that's exactly what i needed.

Actually i tried to resolve my problem as follows :

1- I implemented a webscript that creates the components of the dashboard of a user following the template of the admin dashboard configuration. (components are represented by xml files under this node /app:company_home/st:sites/cm:surf-config/cm:components).

it gets the userName as param.

2- I call this webscript when the user log in to the system for the first time.

So the user gets dynamically the last configuration done by the admin, and he could modify again his dashboard based on this config.

It works fine.

Re: Apply admin user-dashboard config on all users

AlfrescoZZZ — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:38:56 GMT

Hi sorry to bother you Abrar , i'm encounter the same issue can i ask you to share the webscript you use for solve this issue?