Alfresco 4.2 Enterprise: Hide Create Folder from non-admin users

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mduduzi

Hi,

We have a requirement to hide Create Folder from non-admin users and when we edit the file toolbar.lib.ftl as follows I get the Upload button is disabled as well:

       <#if user.isAdmin>
         <div class="hideable toolbar-hidden DocListTree">
            <div class="new-folder">
               <span id="${id}-newFolder-button" class="yui-button yui-push-button">
                  <span class="first-child">
                     <button name="newFolder">${msg("button.new-folder")}</button>
                  </span>
               </span>
            </div>
         </div>
       </#if>
       
       <#if !user.isAdmin>
         <div class="hideable toolbar-hidden DocListTree" style="display: none;">
            <div class="new-folder">
               <span id="${id}-newFolder-button" class="yui-button yui-push-button">
                  <span class="first-child">
                     <button name="newFolder">${msg("button.new-folder")}</button>
                  </span>
               </span>
            </div>
         </div>
       </#if>
       
         
         <div class="hideable toolbar-hidden DocListTree">
            <div class="file-upload">
               <span id="${id}-fileUpload-button" class="yui-button yui-push-button">
                  <span class="first-child">
                     <button name="fileUpload">${msg("button.upload")}</button>
                  </span>
               </span>
            </div>
         </div>
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I am not sure why because this are two seperate button. If the is another way of hiding the create folder button from non-admin user please advise.

Kind regards

scouil

Hi,

Here is an comment in alfresco's code

<blockcode>
<!–
         Create Content menu items, can be of 3 types matching the usual doclib action config:

         * "link" - accepts a "href" param that will be passed a nodeRef token for substitution, used for external links
         * "pagelink" - accepts a "page" param that will be passed a nodeRef token for substitution, used for Share links
         * "javascript" - accepts & "function" param of an action that will get the current folder item as first argument.

         I.e.
         <content id="plain-text" label="create-content.text" icon="text" type="pagelink">
            <param name="page">create-content?destination={nodeRef}&amp;itemId=cm:content&amp;mimeType=text/plain</param>
            <permissions>
               <permission allow="true">SomeUserPermissions</permission>
            </permissions>
         </content>

         Note that the "CreateChildren" permission is always required and will disable the entire menu if no granted for a folder.

         Also note that the old/untyped simple config still is allowed, the config snippet below will automatically be
         converted to a "pagelink" as in the example above.
         <content id="plain-text" label="create-content.text" icon="text" itemid="cm:content" mimetype="text/plain" permission="SomeUserPermissions"/>
      –>
</blockcode>
Which means you can just configure share-config-custom.xml to add a permission check on the action.

I don't believe the is an "isAdmin" permission so you'd have to create it with something like

<globalPermission permission="AdminControl" authority="ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR"/>‍

And then will be able to assign it as a permission on the create folder element