Admin announcements

[lees]

Hi,

In share, is there any dashlet  available for publishing announcements for the whole share users?
There are many sites in my share with different user groups. I want to display the administrator announcements for the whole share users (not only for a single site user group).

Any idea?

Thx
Lees

[systec]

We had to provide something very similar for a client by building a custom dashlet. I used the Todo List dashlet kindly provided by Ixxus as a starting point - see http://www.ixxus.com/blog/2009/04/dashlet-todo-list/. I would make the dashlet available but it's the clients' IP.

[lees]

Thank you systec!

I already got that dashlet, but the installation failed.

did you install the todo-list dashlet successfully?

[systec]

To be honest i dont think i followed their intallation instructions completely.

For Alfresco Explorer:
I extracted the custom content model into my own extension folder -
TOMCAT_HOME\shared\classes\alfresco\extension

I extracted the webscript into the repository -
TOMCAT_HOME\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\templates\webscripts

For Alfresco Share:
I extracted the todolist_share.zip into TOMCAT_HOME\webapps\share (as per instructions)

I've tested this on Alfresco 3.2 and the dashlet is available when I customise the user dashboard. Hope that helps.

[lees]

Thank you, got it worked.
Maybe I didn't use the extension directory.

Systec,

As you said, it is a good idea to write something similar to this dashlet, which will fetch the events, like what is the calender dashlet do.