Restricting visibility of a contant type for groups

[lvs]

Hi everybody,

I am using Alfresco enterprise 2.1.
I have created a set of content types, and I would like to associate this types to my user groups. I did not find any way to do this, I would like my users to manage (i.e, create new contents or folders) only the content types that are assigned to their groups. Do you have any idea of how I could do that? Should I modify the create Content, addContent, and addSpace dialogs and wizard or do you see any easier way to do it?

Thanks a lot for your help
Laura

[gavinc]

You're right, there is no way to do this out of the box, your suggestions are spot on, you will need to customise the dialogs and wizards you mentioned.

[lvs]

Thanks Gavinc for your answer!
Laura

[asmita_hardikar]

Hi,

I have similar requirement. can you please share how you implemented the solution?
I am yet not clear on how I can implement the solution by customizing "Add Content" dialog.

My requirement is to allow only SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS to create content of 2 custom content types.

[lvs]

Hi Asmita,

What I did is :
I extended the CreateContentWizard and AddContentDialog beans and rewrote the getObjectTypes() functions in order to retrieve the properties I want to show from a configuration file.
I then add to modify web-client-config-custom.xml in order to make the dialog and the wizard use my new bean.
I also added a new jsp for the addContentDialog as it is not managed as a real dialog and you have to change the bean references directly into the jsp. For this I also had to change the navigation rules in the faces-config.xml.

I hope this help you
Regards
Laura