Share - multi-select (selected items) actions based on current site

l_hobza

Hi,
I need to add one action (and remove other) to multi-select but only if user is in particular site. With normal DocLibActions this is easy - you just add evaluator but multi-select actions do not support custom evaluators. There are some "evaluators" which could be used for multi-select actions (for e.g., hasAspect) but nothing that would help me.

Do I need to override whole multi-select component to achieve this? And if I do are there any examples of that?

I am using ACS 5.2

abhinavmishra14

Evaluators for multiselect would have been cleaner option, but Unfortunately evaluators doesn't work for multi-select actions like doclib actions. 

permission,notAspect,hasAspect etc. could be helpful in some cases but to your specific case it will not work.

You need to extend toolbar webscript and mainly extend the toolbar.js

https://github.com/Alfresco/share/blob/master/share/src/main/resources/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/documentlibrary/toolbar.get.desc.xml

Your customized toolbar.js will be replaced here:

https://github.com/Alfresco/share/blob/master/share/src/main/resources/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/documentlibrary/toolbar.get.html.ftl#L10

e.g.

<@markup id="custom-js" target="js" action="replace">
   <#-- JavaScript Dependencies -->
   <#-- Overridden toolbar.js -->
   <@script src="${url.context}/res/components/profile/toolbar-custom.js" group="profile"/>
</@>

In toolbar.js, you would have to add a customlogic to test the sitepreset or siteshortName based on selected nodes and restrict the actions as needed.

https://github.com/Alfresco/share/blob/master/share/src/main/webapp/components/documentlibrary/toolbar.js#L1449

https://github.com/Alfresco/share/blob/master/share/src/main/webapp/components/documentlibrary/toolbar.js#L1520

You would also be needing a repository webscript that will use SiteService to get the siteInfo -> siteShortName/sitePreset based on an input nodeRef.

files[0].nodeRef -> would give you the nodeRef that can be used for repository layer webscript to get the siteshortname back in reponse.

Checkout these docs for more on extending ootb components:

https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/5.2/develop/share-ext-points/surf-extension-modules/

https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/5.2/develop/share-ext-points/modify-ootb-code/