Missing 'Run Action' wizard on Alfresco Share

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vinmoc

Hi to all,
I'm using Alfresco (v4.0c) about a month, now I want to send a document (from alfresco Site's share) by email with "Run Action" command, but
When I click on the View Details command "Run Action" is missing.

How can I do to activate this command?

VM

jpotts

Unlike Alfresco Explorer, Alfresco Share does not have "Run Action" in the UI action list. We may add this in a future release, however. Until then, there is a partial workaround. If you are using Alfresco 4, an action called "document-execute-script" has been defined, it just hasn't been added to any "actionGroups". If you add it to an actionGroup you can then execute server-side JavaScript. So, you could write a quick little script that invokes an action, place it in Data Dictionary/Scripts, and then use the Execute Script action to run it.

The execute script action can be added to an action group by creating a share-config-custom.xml file in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-extension with the following:

<alfresco-config>
    <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocLibActions">
        <actionGroups>
       <actionGroup id="document-details">
                <action index="500" id="document-execute-script" />
            </actionGroup>
        </actionGroups>
    </config>
</alfresco-config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

For people running 3.4, have no fear. There is an Alfresco Add-On that provides execute script functionality in Share. It's part of the Share Extras project on Google Code.

Server-side JavaScript that runs an action might look like:

var mailAction = actions.create("mail");
mailAction.parameters.to = "someone@someco.com";
mailAction.parameters.subject = "Mail notification";
mailAction.parameters.from = "you@someco.com";
mailAction.parameters.text = "Consider yourself notified, friend." ; 
mailAction.execute(document);‍‍‍‍‍‍

Hope that helps,

Jeff