Disable Download action on a folder

[sakshik]

Hello,

I have read posts about how to disable download actions for a consumer or at all. But, I need to disable Download action on a folder. 

Any suggestions?

[ashwin_mor]

This can be done share document library XML file. It has an entry for folder and document actions. You can remove or add specific evaluator for folder action.

[sakshik]

Hi ashwin.mor _‌ 

 I want to disable Download on a particular folder such that no document on that folder is allowed to be downloaded. Could you elaborate on your answer.

[ashwin_mor]

Hi Sakshi,

Evaluators can come in handy for your use case. You need a way to identify folders for which you want to disable the action.

You can do that by using folder names as well, but I would suggest go via a aspect route. Add an aspect to the folder you want to disable the action and have a check in the evaluator.

Hope this is helpful

[sakshik]

Hi ‌,

yes ..

and I needed information on how to create such an aspect. Could you please help with that.

[ashwin_mor]

You can create aspect as below

Creating new custom types and aspects | Alfresco Documentation 

Apply this aspect to the folders you want to restrict download action.

Use predefined evaluator to check aspect.

Predefined evaluators | Alfresco Documentation 

[sakshik]

Hi ashwin.mor _‌

Thank you for the reply. I created a custom aspect type by:

Admin Tools -> Model Manager -> Create Model -> 

Namespace: http://www.mycompany.com/model/downloadaction/1.0

Prefix: dwnld

Name: DownloadAction

Inside DownloadAction ->Create Aspect

Name: download_action

Parent Aspect: None

Aspect is created.Model activated successfully. Aspect shows up in the list of available aspects: 

Now, what is the way to link this aspect to the evaluator which will disable download action?

[sakshik]

‌ could you guide me through it.

[ashwin_mor]

Hi Sakshi,

Look at

Use predefined evaluator to check aspect.

Predefined evaluators | Alfresco Documentation 

We now need to add a condition in share document library XML file to use the new aspect.

[kalpesh_c2]

Hi , Sakshi Kochhar‌

Add the following entry in Alfresco_Home/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml file.

< !-- Document Library Actions config section -- >

< config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocLibActions" >

    < !--

       Action definitions

    -- >

    < actions >

       < !-- Download document -- >

       < action id="document-download" type="link" label="actions.document.download" >

         < param name="href" >{downloadUrl}</ param >

       < !--

       Evaluator to Disable Download action when document is locked by a user

       -- >

          < evaluator negate="true" >"DOWNLOAD_CUSTOM_EVALUATOR"</ evaluator >

       </ action >

    </ actions >

</ config >

refer this documentation Creating a custom evaluator | Alfresco Documentation  to create custom evaluator .