Document actions based on user rights/role

[angelborroy]

This is exactly what the addon I gave you does: create a special subset of actions for the group "SIMPLE USER": https://github.com/keensoft/alfresco-simplify-share/blob/master/simplify-share/src/main/amp/config/a... 

Probably you can develop your own addon taking this one as starting point.

[zputnoky]

Not sure that your solution does what I need to achieve. In our case we would like to keep the predefined site roles, but modify the available actions based on role.

Am I able to do the following with your code?

• Have 3 users
• The 3 users are assigned to the same site with different roles: User 1 is manager, User 2 is contributor and User 3 is consumer
• I would like to have the following action groups:
  • User 1 (manager) : download file, view in browser, edit properties, move to, copy to, start workflow, execute some custom actions
  • User 2 (contributor): dowload file, view in browser, edit properties
  • User 3 (consumer): download file, view in browser

All other actions like: change type, manage aspects, take ownership, should be reserved for users with admin right.

The users might have different roles in different sites.

I am not a developer and just recently started modifying Alfresco, some of the ideas given are new to me, hence the frequent questions.

Regards,

Zsolt Putnoky

[angelborroy]

Yes, you can do it by evolving the addon I gave you.

[zputnoky]

okay, time to have another look and figure out how to make that work.

thanks for your patience, much appreciated.

Zsolt Putnoky

[angelborroy]

Probably the hardest is to deal with all those "Site_SiteShortName_RoleName" dynamically generated groups...

[zputnoky]

Do I need to list all the actions I would like to make available into the removed-actions.xml file?

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="DocLibActions" replace="true">
            <actionGroups>
            
                     <actionGroup id="document-browse">
                        <action index="100" id="document-download"/>
                     </actionGroup>
            
                     <actionGroup id="document-details">
         </actionGroup>

Into these part?

[angelborroy]

You need one "removed-actions.xml" per group / role

[zputnoky]

I assume if I need to create 3 diffrent 'removed-action.xml' I should name them differently. Where do I need to declare the files?

Another issue: user roles might change between sites. In our case, a site is a project. We have few projects in the same time, so user A who is a manager of a site/folder in project A might be a simple Consumer in project B. In such case, do I need to create a group for each project?

[angelborroy]

‌ I remember you told me about some kind of Site Evaluator to filter Surf components for site roles, right? I can't find it now...

[angelborroy]

If there is no role evaluator by default, you should create a custom evaluator by developing something similar to http://soft29.info/blog/entry/alfresco-extension-module-evaluators