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Disable 'Create site' link

lees

Hi all,

I want to disable the 'Create Site' link from the 'My sites' dashlet in case the user is not belong to admin group.

let me know any pointers as to how to implement..

-thx

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norgan

1) Search for the Textstring in the properties files and mark the codeline
2) Search for the JSP, using the codeline, which gives you the text
3) Copy & Change the JSP and change the Myfaces config to use your JSp instead of the standard.

For more details - see the wiki and http://www.ecmarchitect.com

lees

Hi Norgan,

Thanks for the reply!
I am not an Alfresco expert and I didn't worked in any customization parts. Anyway as you said I do a search for the textstring in the properties files and get my-sites.js. I am looking on it. Hopefully this is the one you suggested.

Lees

norgan

I hope so as well

That was jus the way, I would have searched.

You might think about adjusting the rights system, however, to finetune the SHARE rights to "may create new sites" or something. because hiding the link will still allow black sheep to directly call the JSP and create their shadow sites.

And regardless of wether you solved it, alfresco has to do it or the community might help - open up a ticket with issues.alfresco.com as feature request/improvement for share. Then post the link here to make people vote on it.

Norgan

gronfelt

If you simply want to prevent the Create Site-link from being shown you could disable it in the file my-sites.get.html.ftl.

You should be able to use something like this to enable it for Admin users only:

<#if user.isAdmin>
                 <div class="toolbar">
                       <a href="#" id="${args.htmlid}-createSite-button" class="theme-color-1">${msg("link.createSite")}</a>
                 </div>
</#if>
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(That's also how the Administration link in the header is shown/hidden.)

However, this will not disable the functionality itself, merely the link.

lees

That is really cool workaround!!

It is now working as well and still looking whether I can add site_managers group instead of admin

.

Thanks gronfelt.
However as Norgan said, will open a ticket in JIRA.

lees

Another solution, but it is with Alfresco explorer
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=21330

unknown-user

Using this solution, When I log back in as a non admin user, I can still see the button. Does this only work for users that do not have a profile yet? If so how can I force everyone to have new profiles at login?

Also using this method can I remove the invite right to all users? I only want admin and site admins to be able to invite users.

Thanks

lgarcia

Hi all. I tried the above code and it works. But what i want is to allow the creation of sites for some users, not only the admin. I want to create a function, like the "isAdmin", for example "isfromGroupCreate", that returns true is the users bellongs to the group "Create". Someone has any ideas?
Thanks,
Luís Garcia.

fkoenig

If you simply want to prevent the Create Site-link from being shown you could disable it in the file my-sites.get.html.ftl.

You should be able to use something like this to enable it for Admin users only:
<#if user.isAdmin>
                 <div class="toolbar">
                       <a href="#" id="${args.htmlid}-createSite-button" class="theme-color-1">${msg("link.createSite")}</a>
                 </div>
</#if>
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(That's also how the Administration link in the header is shown/hidden.)

However, this will not disable the functionality itself, merely the link.

This only prevents the "Create Site" link from being shown in the My Sites dashlet.

If you want to remove it from the drop-down menu next to Sites in the page header, edit header.get.html.ftl , something like:

<#if !isGuest>
         <#if user.isAdmin>
         <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
            <li>
               <a href="#" onclick="thisHeader.showCreateSite(); return false;">${msg("header.sites.createSite")}</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         </#if>
         </#if>
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Io remove it from the Getting started dashlet edit user-welcome.get.html.ftl , something like :

<#if user.isAdmin>
      <div class="detail-list-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.customiseDashboard")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.customiseDashboard")}</div>
         <div><a href="${url.context}/page/customise-user-dashboard" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.customiseDashboard")}</a></div>
      </div>
      <div class="detail-list-item last-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.createSite")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.createSite")}</div>
         <div><a id="${args.htmlid}-createSite-button" href="#" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.createSite")}</a></div>
      </div>
<#else>
      <div class="detail-list-item last-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.customiseDashboard")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.customiseDashboard")}</div>
         <div><a href="${url.context}/page/customise-user-dashboard" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.customiseDashboard")}</a></div>
      </div>
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fast3r

I'm trying to do the same for users not belonging to a specific created group (in my case, SYSTEM_MANAGERS), so I can't use the isAdmin attribute.

The only way I've found in Share is to make a remote call to "/api/people/{username}?groups=true" and check whether in the groups array of the user properties there's the SYSTEM_MANAGERS one.
By the way, this is very expensive in terms of page overhead, it has to be called for each page in Share… there must be a better way, like saving a boolean value in a global constant and checking the repo only when the user logs in.

Any suggestions?

brauliotrujillo

If you simply want to prevent the Create Site-link from being shown you could disable it in the file my-sites.get.html.ftl.

to remove it from the Getting started dashlet edit user-welcome.get.html.ftl , something like :

<#if user.isAdmin>
      <div class="detail-list-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.customiseDashboard")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.customiseDashboard")}</div>
         <div><a href="${url.context}/page/customise-user-dashboard" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.customiseDashboard")}</a></div>
      </div>
      <div class="detail-list-item last-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.createSite")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.createSite")}</div>
         <div><a id="${args.htmlid}-createSite-button" href="#" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.createSite")}</a></div>
      </div>
<#else>
      <div class="detail-list-item last-item">
         <h4 class="theme-color-2">${msg("header.customiseDashboard")}</h4>
         <div>${msg("text.customiseDashboard")}</div>
         <div><a href="${url.context}/page/customise-user-dashboard" class="theme-color-2">${msg("link.customiseDashboard")}</a></div>
      </div>
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Excellent post by fkoenig, i already did as he instructs, just one important note, i got two errors the first time i ran the server again, one error was on the user-welcome.get.html.ftl, but i found out its only missing an "</#if> at the end of the code, just add that and you should be fine. The other issue was on the header.get.html.ftl , i got it to work by removing the lines at both ends of the suggested code, "<#if !isGuest> and "</#if>, leaving only the <#if user.isAdmin>.

Now with these tweaks, only Admin would be able to create sites, which in our case works great because we want to control that part of the app.

srinivasmurty

I am also looking to do this. However, I recently deployed Alfresco Community edition 3.2 on an Amazon EC2 instance. Turns out this was a ".war" implementation which does not expose all the Alfresco files for me to open, edit and customize away. I am scratching my bald had wondering how I can do this. I have another installation on a server at home which of course lets me do all those tweaks. Anyone of you experts know what I can do?

srinivasmurty

I just thought I should add some additional stuff that I had tried. I used "jar" to extract the files from the "share.war" file. I then made some changes to replace some of the logo files under the default theme's image folder. This had worked in my other Alfresco Community installation. Alas, despite recreating the "war" file and replacing the old one with the new one, it does not seem to work. I was hoping if this worked, I would go on to other stuff like removing the "Create Site" link. If anyone there has an idea what's going on I would really appreciate the help.

fast3r

Maybe you could think about downloading the whole source from Alfresco (HEAD), make your changes and rebuild the package from source.
There are some good tutorials on Alfresco Wiki that explain how to do that!

mikeh

Use the extensions mechanism*, that's what it's there for.

* shared/classes/alfresco/extension for the alfresco.war
shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension for the share.war

Thanks,
Mike

srinivasmurty

Mike, thanks for the info. I will look it up. Might require me to dust off some tech cobwebs to figure it out.

Fast3r - thank you for the suggestion. I do believe that's a good way to do it. However, I had decided to go with one of Alfresco's Amazon AMIs which has a pre-configured Alfresco installation. At the moment, I found it more important to get up and running with Alfresco Share rather than try to learn how to create Amazon AMIs and then do the hand-build thing.

srinivasmurty

I had a question. Is http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Web_Client_Configuration_Guide the most current documentation that will help me with understanding "web-extension"?

Use the extensions mechanism*, that's what it's there for.

* shared/classes/alfresco/extension for the alfresco.war
shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension for the share.war

Thanks,
Mike

ottopodo

Hello,
here is my solution using some suggestions I found in this Thread:
extend header.get.js by adding this function:

function userHasGroup(username, group) {
   var result = remote.call("/api/people/" + stringUtils.urlEncode(username) + "?groups=true");
   if (result.status == 200 && result != "{}")
   {
      var user = eval('(' + result + ')');
     
      var groups = new Array();
      groups = user.groups;
      var mygroups = "";
      for (i=0; i<groups.length; i++)
      {                   
         if (groups[i].displayName == group || groups[i].displayName == "ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS"){ 
        return true; // found group
      }else{
        mygroup = mygroups+groups[i].displayName;
      }
      }
      
      return false;
   }
   else return false;
}
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and by adding at the end of the file this:

  var createSiteVisible = userHasGroup(user.name, 'YOUR_GROUP_NAME');
  model.createSiteVisible = createSiteVisible;
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YOUR_GROUP_NAME is the name of the GROUP you created to control site creation feature.

Then in header.get.html.ftl replace:

<#if !user.isGuest>
         <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
            <li>
               <a href="#" onclick="thisHeader.showCreateSite(); return false;">${msg("header.sites.createSite")}</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         </#if>
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with:

<#if createSiteVisible>
         <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
            <li>
               <a href="#" onclick="thisHeader.showCreateSite(); return false;">${msg("header.sites.createSite")}</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         </#if>
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Marco

ottopodo

To complete the previous post in Alfresco 3.4 you have to extend the new files modules/header/sites.get.js and modules/header/sites.get.html.ftl
The code remains the same.

damiano

Hi!
I've tried with 3.4 the way you described, but every time I access to Share I get a popup with "Could not load module template from '/share/service/modules/header/sites'."
This come out every time I click on a page.

I've followed your steps, maybe some ideas?
Thank you very very much!

ottopodo

Copy the following files :
[YOUR TOMCAT FOLDER]/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/modules/header/sites.get.js
[YOUR TOMCAT FOLDER]/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/modules/header/sites.get.html.ftl
to this folder (create it if it doesn't exists) :
[YOUR TOMCAT FOLDER]/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/modules/header/

Then add the following function to sites.get.js

function userHasGroup(username, group) {
   var result = remote.call("/api/people/" + stringUtils.urlEncode(username) + "?groups=true");
   if (result.status == 200 && result != "{}")
   {
      var user = eval('(' + result + ')');
     
      var groups = new Array();
      groups = user.groups;
      var mygroups = "";
      for (i=0; i<groups.length; i++)
      {                   
         if (groups[i].itemName == "GROUP_"+group || groups[i].itemName == "GROUP_ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS"){
        return true; // found group
      }else{
        mygroup = mygroups+groups[i].displayName;
      }
      }
     
      return mygroup;
   }
   else return false;
}
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add at the following lines to sites.get.js before
// Prepare the model for the template

  var createSiteVisible = userHasGroup(user.name, 'CAN_CREATE_SITE');
  model.createSiteVisible = createSiteVisible;
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"CAN_CREATE_SITE" is the name of the group you have to create.

Then change sites.get.html.ftl replacing:

      <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
         <li>
            <span><a href="#" onclick="${jsid}.showCreateSite(); return false;">${msg("label.create-site")}</a></span>
         </li>
      </ul>
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with:

     <#if createSiteVisible>
      <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
         <li>
            <span><a href="#" onclick="${jsid}.showCreateSite(); return false;">${msg("label.create-site")}</a></span>
         </li>
      </ul>
     </#if>
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It should work.
Marco

marcusmoeller

Hi Marco,

on my 3.4b installation, the folder:

shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/modules/header/

does not exist within the tomcat root. There is only a shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension folder available. Should I place the files in there?

Greets
Marcus

michaelc

I think you want
shared\classes\alfresco\web-extension\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components\header

sjoerdjump

i can confirm the following code to disable the "Create Site" from the header menu for none-admins:
Locate the following file
<TOMCAT ROOT>\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\modules\header\sites.get.html.ftl

and edit the code as follows:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <#if user.isAdmin>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <ul class="create-site-menuitem">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <li>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span><a href="#" onclick='Alfresco.util.ComponentManager.get("${id_js}").showCreateSite(); return false;'>${msg("label.create-site")}</a></span>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </li>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </ul>
&nbsp;&nbsp; </#if>
&nbsp;&nbsp; </div>
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remove <#if user.isAdmin> and </#if> to make it again "as is"

(I just spent a some time figuring this out since i missed that this topic was 2 pages instead of 1, so i hope that it might be helpfull to someone

)

nirvanvjain

Hi All,

For the methods ( isAdmin and isGuest etc…) inside [size=150]ftl [/size] file , Is there any import required ?

If yes then where ?

If no then which all are implicit objects which we get in ftl files ?

Please Guide me.

Thanks!
-Nirvan

wengm

Here is one possible choice for reference:

Edit configuration file share-config.xml under directory /opt/alfresco-4.0.b/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/:

Add permission="admin" in item sites:

<item type="js" id="sites" permission="admin">Alfresco.module.Sites</item>‍

Then, only administrator can see "Sites" item on the header. Of course, I guess you can use other allowed permissions instead of "admin".

wengm

Official way to control site creation, please refer to http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Site_Service#Controlling_who_can_create_sites

michaelc

wengm - the problem with the official way is the link is still there.
when an unauthorized user clicks the link an ugly error message shows.

this I myself found not acceptable to my users.

So wrap the link in code so that it won't show if your not allowed to do it.

wengm

Correctly, with official solution, the "Create Site" link does not disappear. There is also no dedicated error message to tell you what happened. Thus, the better solution is to wrap the code just in below way.

Edit file: /opt/alfresco-4.0.b/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/dashlets/my-sites.get.html.ftl

<#if user.isAdmin>
         <span class="align-right yui-button-align">
            <span class="first-child">
               <a href="#" id="${id}-createSite-button" class="theme-color-1">
                  <img src="${url.context}/res/components/images/site-16.png" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" />
                  ${msg("link.createSite")}</a>
            </span>
         </span>
        </#if>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Note: Change takes effect only after restarting alfresco server

michaelc

Correctly, with official solution, the "Create Site" link does not disappear. There is also no dedicated error message to tell you what happened. Thus, the better solution is to wrap the code just in below way.

Edit file: /opt/alfresco-4.0.b/tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-webscripts/org/alfresco/components/dashlets/my-sites.get.html.ftl
<#if user.isAdmin>
         <span class="align-right yui-button-align">
            <span class="first-child">
               <a href="#" id="${id}-createSite-button" class="theme-color-1">
                  <img src="${url.context}/res/components/images/site-16.png" style="vertical-align: text-bottom" />
                  ${msg("link.createSite")}</a>
            </span>
         </span>
        </#if>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
Note: Change takes effect only after restarting alfresco server

great minds think alike - only thing I would add is we created a group that we could assign users into vs. allowing only admins.
this allows for you to give this right to some users without giving them the whole admin authority.
then change the if to look for create site
<#if createSite>

added code in my-sites.get.js

function main()
{
   createSite = false
 
       var result = remote.call("/api/people/" + stringUtils.urlEncode(user.name) + "?groups=true");
       if (result.status == 200)
          {
           var i;          
           
          // Create javascript objects from the server response
          // This is the User and it also contains all groups. 
           var userValue = eval('(' + result + ')');
         
          
           if (userValue.groups.length != 0)
              {
 
                 for (i = 0; i < userValue.groups.length; i++)
                 {
                      if (userValue.groups[i].itemName == "GROUP_ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS") createSite = true;
                 }
              }            

          }
   
   // Check for IMAP server status
   var result = remote.call("/imap/servstatus"),
      imapServerEnabled = (result.status == 200 && result == "enabled");

   // Prepare the model for the template
   model.imapServerEnabled = imapServerEnabled;
   model.createSite = createSite;
}

main();
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deeps

Hi,

i have written 1 ftl for hiding create site button in menu.
its worked properly.

but after that i have deployed some amp. after that all changes are reverted back.
i have written that ftl inside share folder directly.

and i think i need to do that changes inside shared folder of alfresco.
but i dont know where should i write that file inside shared folder.

i am new in alfresco.

so can you help me please.

your help will really appreciated.

Thanks in Advance