Adding members without invites

[edwin_s]

Hello,

I'm an administrator for an Alfresco 3.2 community installation, and I was wondering if there is a way to add members to an Alfresco Share site without going through the invite process?  The use case for this is that some groups would like to have their share site created without troubling their members with the extra process.  Personally, it's also easier just to add users to spaces outright.

In 3.0, I was able to go through the Alfresco site and use the Administrative Console, "Manage User Groups" function.  Now, it appears that the Alfresco site strips or hides the site groups now.

Thanks,
Ed

[mikeh]

One way would be to create a group for those users you want to add and then add the group to the Site instead.

Thanks,
Mike

[edwin_s]

If I use them mechanism to add users, they do not show up in the 'Site Colleagues' dashlet.  Is there a way to display those names?

[mikeh]

Not currently no - adding groups happened relatively late in the development of v3.2 so we didn't get a chance to develop functionality like that.

Mike

[mfischer]

I have the same problem in Alf 3.2r CE:

The permissions are set by groups which are syncronized with AD via ldap-ad. Users within these groups aren't shown as colleagues nor in member list of a Share-site. But we don't want to add all the users manually to the roles.

When will this functionality be built in Alfresco CE?

This is the way we're adding the users to a site:

1. the user becomes member of a group in the AD
2. in the respective Share-site the group is added via "Invite" -> "Groups" -> "Add Groups"-button with their assigned role

PS: in the Alfresco Web Client the role "consumer" is deleted from "Everyone" at every site so users can list only the sites wich they are member of.

[mikeh]

I think it's in JIRA, so should be planned for v3.3

Mike

[mrogers]

Or the community could contribute it.

[mfischer]

The next issue by managing user roles this way appears at the "Site Managers" dashlet: it shows only the "Administrator" and the AD group which contains the respective manager users and got the role "Site Manager". I think there could be some changes made to "…/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/dashlets/site-profile.get.js", to check if the returned value is a type of "GROUP" and then run the for-loop against this group to get the members.

But i'm not a java programmer, so any help would be appreciated…  :roll:

Regards,
Mario

[kilgad]

hi, same bug in 3.3G last build.

it's this JIRA : https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2935?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetab... ?

status : closed ?

[mfischer]

hi, same bug in 3.3G last build.

Yes, I can confirm that.

it's this JIRA : https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2935?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetab... ?

status : closed ?

"Mike Farman" said: "This is expected, it's the group that defines the site membership. When users are 'members' because they belong to a group that is a site member, the users need to be added/removed from the group, not from the site membership page."

Thats is correct, but: IMHO it has nothing to do with the missing abilitity of Alfresco to resolve the group members, even if they are stored in the Alfresco user database or come from an Active Directory/LDAP. So the functionality seems to be not included, but it should be…  :cry: