Create a New User Registration Form

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kennetjacob

Hi…
     Iam a newbie in Alfresco. I like to create a new user registration form in share. I studied about the javascript people API to create new user, but don know how to access the javascript API from share. Can you please provide me some sample how to make remote call to javascript API and create a new user. Pl help me.. :?  :?  :?

Thanks in Advance.

Kennet

kevinr

The APIs you can are called "person" - look at this URL on your deployed Alfresco instance:
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/index/uri/
search for /person and /people
- those are the Webscript api urls that Share uses.
Here are the docs: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_RESTful_API_Reference#Add_Person

The people API expects a JSON request, something like this:

var myPerson = {
   "userName":"test1",
   "password":"password",
   "firstName":"Test",
   "lastName":"User",
   "email":"test@test.net",
   "disableAccount":false,
   "quota":-1,
   "groups":[]
};
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To call an API like this from a WebScript component JavaScript controller in Share is easy:

var json = jsonUtils.toJSONString(myPerson);
var conn = remote.connect("alfresco");
conn.post("/api/people", json, "application/json");
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And that's it!

Take a look at the "Users" Admin Console page in Share and the code behind it (files called users.get.* and users.js) for a more advanced example.

Note that only a logged in admin user can create people!

Kev