How to hide Assistance Panel for all non-admin users

[sara_gangale]

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to limit permission for all non-admin users. So far I managed to prevent non-admin users from creating new sites, the link is still there but when the user fills in the form and clicks OK he receives a permission denied message.
I'd like to go further and automatically hide all the assistance panel for all users, old and newly created, in order not to show them something they'll surely click and ask me "why doesn't it work?"

I think (but I can be wrong" that I have to work on presets.xml file, I read somewhere that I have to get rid of all instances of "dynamic-welcome" urls, I tried but nothing changes. I simply edited the file, commenting out all the components regarding dynamic-welcome, I saved the file and restarted Tomcat.

What am I doing wwong? Can someone put me in the right direction?
Thanks

[hgindl]

without trying it, but you could try
https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/remove-welcome-da...

kind regards,
hannes

[sara_gangale]

thanks!
I found that yesterday, and it works perfectly
now I have to hide the create site link from the drop-down menu for all the non-admin users… any idea?
I don't know why this feature is not embedded… is it normal for all alfresco users to create new sites without any control?
thanks again!

[hgindl]

i think a good starting point for that would be

http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/dev-extensions-share-tutorials-custom-header-menu-item-removal.ht...

or

http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2013/09/04/customizing-the-share-header-menu-part-1/

In part 3 of this tutorial dave draper shows how to do it

additionally you have to customize the my-sites.get.js in tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets , set model.showCreateSite only if user.isAdmin

[sara_gangale]

First of all, i'm not a developer I'm a system engineer so I'm kinda lost in this things
I managed to create a new jar following the directions in the alfresco documentation, but I don't know how to modify the my-sites.get.js, if I simply edit it using notepad++ I receive a lot of errors after alfresco restart…
If I try to open the js file using Eclipse instead, it throws me another error (model is undefined)
I'm stuck, can you please help?
Thanks again

[hgindl]

its as easy as

1) navigate to (create if folder not exists)
tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets

2.) copy my-sites.get.js from tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets to tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\dashlets

3.) modify code in my-sites.get.js from

model.showCreateSite = true;‍

to

model.showCreateSite = user.isAdmin;‍

restart or reload share webscripts

check using admin account and normal account

[angelborroy]

You can do it by extending Alfresco rather than overwriting. This can help https://github.com/keensoft/alfresco-summit-2014/tree/master/10-enhancements/09-hide-create-site

[sara_gangale]

hey, thanks for your useful answer.
I don't know how to install all those files: in the chapter "installation" they talk about amp and amp_share, and a script to run ro install them. But there are no .amp files to install, so what do I have to do? I thought I had to copy the files into the specifies directories (keeping the structure as seen in the link) but most of the folders are missing in my installation…
Sorry for the stupid question but again I'm a total newbie (but I want to learn )

[hgindl]

thats the best way

[sara_gangale]

I tried to parse the share project using apache maven but I receive this error:

C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\hide_create_site>mvn
[INFO] Scanning for projects…
[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR]   The project  (C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\hide_create_site\pom.xml)
has 1 error
[ERROR]     Non-parseable POM C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\hide_create_site\po
m.xml: Expected root element 'project' but found 'html' (position: START_TAG see
n …<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en" class="">… @6:26)  @ line 6, column 26 -
> [Help 2]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit
ch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea
d the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildin
gException
[ERROR] [Help 2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ModelParseExce
ption

can somebody help? thanks