Disabling Space Creation Option

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nh

Hi All,

I need to provide the access and visiblity of "Create Space" in the "Create" drop down menu only to the admin and only "Create Content" option to all the other users

Can someone please suggest how to implement this?

Thanks.
NH

gavinc

You can override the action definition for the create_space and create_space_wizard actions.

<config>
      <actions>
         <action id="create_space">
             <permissions>
                <permission allow="true">CreateChildren</permission>
            </permissions>
            <evaluator>your.ActionEvaluator</evaluator>
            <label-id>create_space</label-id>
            <image>/images/icons/create_space.gif</image>
            <action>dialog:createSpace</action>
         </action>
         
         <!– Create Advanced Space Wizard –>
         <action id="create_space_wizard">
            <permissions>
               <permission allow="true">CreateChildren</permission>
            </permissions>
            <evaluator>your.ActionEvaluator</evaluator>
            <label-id>advanced_space_wizard</label-id>
            <image>/images/icons/create_space.gif</image>
            <action>wizard:createSpace</action>
         </action>
   </actions>
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If you add the above to your web-client-config-custom.xml file you will override the action definitions, notice the extra 'evaluator' element from the default definition. This should point to a custom action evaluator class you'll need to implement. Have a look at the org.alfresco.web.action.evaluator package for examples.

Basically you'll need to implement an evaluate method and return true or false depending on whether the current user is the admin user or not.

public boolean evaluate(Node node)
{
   return (Application.getCurrentUser(FacesContext.getCurrentInstance()).getUserName().equals("admin"));
} 
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