Dashlet 'My Documents' empty

[thoralt]

Hello,

I'm a new user to Alfresco and managed to get around the first obstacles successfully. Alfresco 3.4.d is now running inside a Debian VM, CIFS and IMAP is working.

In the Alfresco Share Dashboard I have a "My Documents" dashlet, which (I guess) should display my favourites/editing/modified files from the repository. I created some files inside the repository and marked some of them as favourite. My hope was that they appear inside the "My Documents" dashlet, but they don't. The dashlet is completely empty.

Could somebody give me a hint what to do? I did search the forum, but didn't find something helpful. Do I need to provide more information?

Best regards
Thoralt

[mikeh]

Currently, the Share dashlets will only pick up content within Sites.

Thanks,
Mike

[thoralt]

Currently, the Share dashlets will only pick up content within Sites.

Thanks, this did answer my question.

Thoralt

[rushingbee]

Greetings!

I'm running Share on 4.2c.  I couldn't help but notice that files and folders both have "favorites" star buttons next to them in the UI, whether they are in Sites or not.  This is good, because I want users to be able to have quick dashboard access to their favorite folders anywhere in the repository.

If "My Documents" dashlet only recognizes documents (and folders? bonus) from Sites, then do the 'favorite' buttons on repository documents actually do anything in Share?  If so, how can we add non-'Sites' documents and folders to this favorites list?

This has been acknowledged as a 'critical bug' that has been 'fixed' but i'm still missing this functionality in 4.2c.  Am I missing something?

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT-1972?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanel...

Edit: Perhaps this bug is unrelated.  I'll check catalina.out for related errors.  If anybody else has suggestions that would be great;  This feature is definitely going to be essential when it comes to convincing folks to use Share.

[florentdelannoy]

Hello,

There are two separate issues at play in the "My Documents" dashlet:
1. It doesn't show content outside sites
2. It doesn't show folders

I submitted a patch for issue #1 (just for favourites actually) as <a href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-19451">ALF-19451</a>.

Issue #2 was marked as successfully resolved in <a href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/MNT-1972">MNT-1972</a> as you noted, but - the "resolution" was merely to change the documentation to read that folders should not appear in this view. Sort of a cop-out… And the documentation still explicitly mentions both documents and folder, so it's still confusing and arguably broken.

There exists a separate API call to get favourite folders rather than favourite files though, which could be a good starting point for fixing the issue.