Customize Users search

[luxman99]

I want to customize the users search ( particularly when assigning a user in a workflow ) to let the user serach by groups. First, he selects the group, after that, he chooses a user which belongs to the group selected.

[mitpatoliya]

Check this component u need to customize this one

C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\people-finder

[luxman99]

And what is the best way to customize it. I am a beginner Alfresco developer and i've found in this folder too many files.

[zladuric]

Hi,

This is a process of several steps. You can start by augmenting the markup, ie. add an input element and a label to search for groups. It's done in the *ftl file.
Then you can alter the behavior of client-side javascript, which will:
- hide the person finder and unhide the group finder input element
- when user searches for a group, do a call to backend, it is similar to the people search, just slightly different param. Check this in group-finder.js file.
- when you get back this group and select it, do another ajax call to backend to get all people in this group, and put these as a data source for input element, and unhide the people search element now.

This would be done in client side component, somewhere in /share/components/people-finder/people-finder.js

Try looking at those files and ask for help once you figure out your next question.

[luxman99]

Thank you. I will try to follow these steps.