Disabling Quick Share functionality

[alejandrogarcia]

Hi folks,

I'm currently trying find out a way to disable system-wide the Quick Share functionality in Alfresco 4.2.b, or if it is not possible, at least remove quickshare links from both the documentlibrary and the document-details pages.

First thing I have tried is to take advantage of the system.quickshare.enabled property which is configurable in the alfresco-global.properties file. It simply doesn't work throwing the next exception:

I have found an issue opened about that: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-16233.

As it seems to be a bug and would be fixed in further releases, I'm focused in removing quickshare links from UI as far as possible. By the way I found a post related which helps: https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=46659. I have successfully removed the document-links region in document-details page by creating the next extension:

<extension>
   <modules>
      <module>
         <id>Removes from document-details page the Share region.</id>
         <auto-deploy>true</auto-deploy>
         <components>
            <component>
               <scope>template</scope>
               <region-id>document-links</region-id>
               <source-id>document-details</source-id>
               <sub-components>
                  <sub-component id="default">
                     <evaluations>
                        <evaluation id="hideDocumentLinks">
                           <render>false</render>
                        </evaluation>
                     </evaluations>
                  </sub-component>
               </sub-components>
            </component>
         </components>
      </module>
   </modules>
</extension>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

That's fine. I have also the quickshare link from the document-details page performing some changes in the share-config.xml file, specifically by leaving empty the <url> tag within the Social section:

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Social">
      <!– Alfresco QuickShare social widget - for creating public url that can be shared –>
      <quickshare>
         <!–
            Will be available as Alfresco.constants.QUICKSHARE_URL using javascrip in the browser.
            If changing this, make sure this url matches the quickshare rule in urlrewrite.xml
         –>
         <url>{context}/s/{sharedId}</url>
      </quickshare>

      <!– Alfresco LinkShare social widget - share a link to social sites –>
      <linkshare>
         <!–
            These actions will be available as Alfresco.constants.LINKSHARE_ACTIONS using javascript in the browser.
            Labels will be retrieved from msg key "linkshare.action.<id>.label" unless explicitly provided as an
            attribute to the action element.
            Each param value accepts the following input: {shareUrl}, {displayName} or a msg key that will be prefixed.
            I.e. {body} for the email action's href param will be retrieved using "linkshare.action.email.body".
         –>
         <action id="email" type="link" index="10">
            <param name="href">mailto:?subject={subject}&amp;body={body}</param>
            <param name="target">new</param>
         </action>
         <action id="facebook" type="link" index="20">
            <param name="href">https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u={shareUrl}&t={message}</param>
            <param name="target">new</param>
         </action>
         <action id="twitter" type="link" index="30">
            <param name="href">https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text={message}&url={shareUrl}</param>
            <param name="target">new</param>
         </action>
         <action id="google-plus" type="link" index="40">
            <param name="href">https://plus.google.com/share?url={shareUrl}</param>
            <param name="target">new</param>
         </action>
      </linkshare>

   </config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

As this logic is defined in the node-header.get.js webscript:

model.showQuickShare = (!model.isContainer && model.showQuickShare && config.scoped["Social"]["quickshare"].getChildValue("url") != null).toString();‍

Nevertheless, the quickshare link remains in the documentlibrary page, which surprise me. I believed that a similar logic as above would exist for showing or not the link in the documentlibrary page but it isn't. So, now I'm wondering what else I can do… As I have been seeing, that link is generated in the client side with the documentlibrary widget (documentlist.js😞

            if (!record.node.isContainer)
            {
               html += '<span class="item item-social item-separator">' + Alfresco.DocumentList.generateQuickShare(this, record) + '</span>';
            }‍‍‍‍

I'm thinking about creating an extension which customize the documentlibrarywidget similarly has described here: http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/ddraper/2012/05/22/customizing-share-javascript-widget-instantiation-pa.... Would that be possible?

I would like to know if there is an easier way to do what I need to do before starting to customize the widget. If that "magic" way doesn't exist, I would like to know if the approach described is correct or not.

Thanks in advance.

[alejandrogarcia]

As the extension of the documentlibrary widget (documentlist.js) wasn't as straightforward as I expected, I have solved it by an easier, simpler and un-intrusive solution. In general terms, it consists in defining an extension module which adds a custom CSS in every page's header. That CSS overrides the quickshare link's styles this way:

/* Disables the Quick Share link both in documentlibrary and document-details pages */
.item-social a.quickshare-action {
   visibility: hidden;
}‍‍‍‍

How to define that kind of extension module is explained here: https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=47312#p140623.

Hope it helps others trying to achieve the same.

Regards.