Disable Site Dashboard

[cybertoast]

Is it possible to disable the site dashboard so that only the site document library is available? I know it's possible to create a dashlet to take the "my sites" list and have them link to the document library, but what I want to do is ensure that the dashboard itself points to the document library. Not really sure where to start looking, so any help would be, um, helpful

[mfischer]

Without disabling the whole dashboard you can follow these steps to configure a site to only containing a doc library (you have to be "Site Manager"):

1. click "Customize Site" in the "Getting Started"-dashlet
2. remove all sites but the doc library site
3. click "Ok"
4. click "Customize Dashboard" in the upper right
5. click "Change Layout"
6. select "One Column"
7. remove all dashlets but "Recently Modified Documents" and if you want "Site Activities"
8. save your changes with "Ok"

Now you have a document library site with the ability to use the dashboard, but w/o other share-modules and with no need for any programming activities.

Regards,
Mario

[fpp]

I'm currently trying to solve a similar problem.

So far it looks to me like that you have to create a new page and overwrite the standard behavior of the dashboard - site-index page (duplicating / adapting all the different components as well).

You can then directly open the document library for that site. This approach might be particularly interesting if you want to provide access to the UserHome folders as these are currently not supported / visible in Share (besides space used shown in the user quotas).

Keep you posted once I have a solution ready.

fpp

[cybertoast]

Hi fpp,

You can then directly open the document library for that site. This approach might be particularly interesting if you want to provide access to the UserHome folders as these are currently not supported / visible in Share (besides space used shown in the user quotas).

This is actually pretty much exactly what I'm trying to do Looking forward to anything you come up with.

I'm going down a similar path - having a fixed page for most users, but allowing customized dashboards for others. So I'll post anything I find along these lines as well. It's really disappointing that the UserHomes is not visible to share dashlets, and that a user-dashboards can't be customized on a per user-group basis. But I guess there are workarounds at least.

[fpp]

Sound's like our approach:

We are building what I call a bare-metal DM/RM solution with an entry page for all (automatically customized for each user), direct access to a document library including access to the Userhome folder(s) (private area) and all the Share sites & documents the user has access to, plus record management for some groups.

It's a bit like using Share minus the collaborative features. The other alternative would have been to write a new interface similar to Optaros' Docasu based on the repository / web scripting framework but we need the certified RM solution. There is some new Surf / Spring integration looking pretty interesting (see video in Alfresco blogs early November and http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SESURF ) but for us this will be to late for the first version.

One of the annoying things besides always having to dig 3 layers into the system (YUI, Model, ftls, Js, etc) is that the only samples I've found break your Share installation as the mechanism for how Share handles the document library has changed quite bit in the last months. So once I have the thing more stable I guess I'll create an updated example on how to extend the document library with custom components (should be early next week).

fpp

[mikeh]

…the only samples I've found break your Share installation as the mechanism for how Share handles the document library has changed quite bit in the last months.

Could you let me know which samples please?

Thanks,
Mike

[fpp]

The sample I was talking about is on

http://edlovesjava.blogspot.com/search/label/extending%20share

still of great help and of-course it could always be that I've done something wrong.

Using the source files provided by ECM Tech (many thanks for the great explanations on your blog ) with 3.2r tomcat would not start up - dozens of errors registering scripts etc. If you want I can send you the eclipse project file so you can reproduce the errors.

fpp

[mikeh]

Ah ok, I thought it was one of ours. Feel free to let the blog owner know his samples need updating though! 

Thanks,
Mike

[fpp]

Will do and also as mentioned above will create another sample with a some more complex components i.e. treeview. If there is already one around it would certainly help - but so far I could not find any.
Which samples are you referring to?

fpp

[mikeh]

There are some in the Community site, but I think they're dashlets. There's also the Custom Document Library action sample here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Custom_Document_Library_Action

Thanks,
Mike