Disallowing Create Site for specific users

[bengrah]

Hi all.

I want to give the ability to Create Sites in Alfresco Share to certain users, and disable it for most others. I thought I could do this by going to the Company Home space on Alfresco Explorer and adding a small group of users with Consumer privileges. After this, I logged into Alfresco Share as one of the users with Consumer privileges, and created a site. Obviously this is a user who I don't want to have the ability to create a site.

So I'm asking is there another way to do this? I assumed that Create Site link in Alfresco was the same (or at least something similar) to the Create Space option in Alfresco Explorer (only set up to create a folder in a specific place, AlfrescoExplorer/CompanyHome/Sites), which is why I'm a bit confused as to how I was able to do it. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

[ashex]

The method detailed in the wiki article does work, however it does not hide the Create Site link. Users are able to click on it, when they try to create a site it simply tells them the Site exists instead of an access denied.

[jpotts]

This is an old thread, but just in case someone comes across it, I've created an add-on that allows you to restrict "create site" capability to members of a "Site Creators" group. The add-on changes both the underlying permissions and the user interface.

https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/share-site-creators

Jeff

[alahwany]

Can you please prvide me the AMP files to install in on my alfresco 5.0.0 d ?

[jpotts]

I have compiled the code and built the AMPs for 5.0.d. They can be downloaded from the releases page on the GitHub project:

https://github.com/jpotts/share-site-creators/releases

Jeff

[paolochen5015]

I love the addon it worked from my end. Thanks much.

[jpotts]

So glad it worked for you. Thanks for using it.

Jeff