Using Alfresco web scripts I can login and get ticket but I can't find any script to get user home folder. I can get folders inside another folder using below script: GET /alfresco/service/slingshot/doclib/doclist/{type}/node/{store_type}/{store_id}/{id} But after login I don't know the user home id. Does anybody know how to do it?
The userhome onces authenticated is considered to be a root object if you are dealing with classic webscripts.
https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/5.0_JavaScript_API#Root_Scope_Objects
You can access it via
var name = userhome.properties.name
Or you can use any of the other properties you may need via the Scripting Node API.
If you are looking for a webscript itself that just returns back the userhome you may need to create your own webscript to access just their User Home information. This can be done quickly and I recommend following this tutorial to learn how to quickly create one that fits what you are looking to do
http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/webscripts/tutorial/tutorial.html
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Hello Everyone thank's in advance for your help.
I am trying to configure access permission in alfresco and now stuck in a scenario
It would be great help if someone defines proper way to achieve this functionality
now my problem is
I want to create a site (which will be accessible by all user)
then will create folder and sub folder in that site (i am ready to customize content type of those folder if required)
now i want to configure alfresco in such a way that specific set of user can access specific folder and it's content
for example
This is list of user
user1,user2,user3,user4,user5
And this is folder structure
Project
Data
Test
Exam
Design
art
practice
Work
W1
W2
Now how to configure it in such a way that
user1 can access Data->Exam
user2 can access work and all it's child folder
user3 can access Data and all it's child folder
user4 can access Design and all it's child folder and
user5 can access Data->Work, Design->art,Work->W1 folder
Note that i am using CMIS api to generate this folder structure
so is there any way to achieve this by java code only ?
i have read about managing permission but not sure about using it just because when i have tried to provide permission to folder it allow to add only single user
but in my case i want to make group of user and want to make the folder accessible by that particulate group.
Thank you so much for you time :)
If you want to use a group, you'll need to create the group in Alfresco using either the admin console or the Alfresco API. CMIS cannot manage users or groups.
Once your users and groups are in place, you can use CMIS to assign them to ACLs. However, the challenge is that you may need to disable or "break" ACL inheritance to do exactly what you want. You cannot disable ACL inheritance with the CMIS API. You'll have to do it in the UI or through the Alfresco API.
With your users and groups in place and with your folders configured to inherit or not inherit parent permissions as needed, you can now add users and groups to your folders. With CMIS, you can add as many users or groups as you need to a given folder. It is not limited to a single user or group. This page has some examples on using Access Control Entries (ACEs) which make up Access Control Lists (ACLs).
I think that Jeff Potts answer is great i will only add few thing's you can look to this post it will give you an answer how to work with ACL How to get Acls of a document.
You can also use the allowable action in any Folder (or document) it will look like this :
Action a = Action.CAN_DELETE_OBJECT;
object = session.getObjectByPath(idObject); // In case it's a folder
if (object.getAllowableActions().getAllowableActions().contains(a)) {
return Boolean.TRUE;// You can do it
}
Only remember that you can get the allowable action from String (In case you want work with few of them)
String canCreateFolder= Action.CAN_CREATE_FOLDER.value();
the most importante Action that you have to use :
can_create_folder = Action.CAN_CREATE_FOLDER.value();
can_create_document = Action.CAN_CREATE_DOCUMENT.value();
can_update_folder = Action.CAN_UPDATE_PROPERTIES.value();
can_update_document = Action.CAN_UPDATE_PROPERTIES.value();
can_delete_folder = Action.CAN_DELETE_OBJECT.value();
can_delete_document = Action.CAN_DELETE_OBJECT.value();
Hope that helped you.
I am new to Alfresco. Using version 5.0.d.
I am developing CMIS based application code to index and access documents into Alfresco repository.
All these documents that our application would be storing is mainly by/for our application.
So probably a limited set of users of our clients might want to manage them through Share UI.
When I go into Alfresco Share interface, I see the concept of sites.
I decided to create a site for our application.
Then inside the site, I am able to create folders
Underneath the site, I also see a document library location, inside which as well I can create folders
I am having a hard time choosing or deciding on an approach.
In order to access the 'Sample' folder that is created directly under the 'testSite' site, CMIS (Java) code looks like this:
Folder folder = (Folder) cmisSession.getObjectByPath("/Sites/testSite/Sample");
In order to access the 'TestFolder' folder that is created under the document library of the site:'testSite', CMIS (Java) code looks like this:
Folder folder = (Folder) cmisSession.getObjectByPath("/Sites/testSite/documentLibrary/TestFolder");
Code does not look any different other than the path...
Can you tell me, why would anyone would prefer to organize their folders, one way or the other?
I also do not know if this is the best way, or if there is any other way, in CMIS API to access the folders underneath a site...
You do not necessarily need to use sites to store your contents.
Sites are designed as collaboration spaces. When you use a site you get "for free":
Simplified (but sometimes not flexible enough) role based access permissions. The idea is that a site manager decides, at the site level, the role of each user. Permissions can be applied to roles instead of groups or users. This helps to simplify the administration of permissions, but sometimes is not flexible enough. Using the API or accessing the folders of the sites in the "repository view" (see for example http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/concepts/share-repodoclib.html), you can set more granular permissions, but doing it somehow breaks the "simplified" role based permissions.
Collaboration pages: document library, blog, calendar, data lists, etc...
A site dashboard that can have a different configuration for each site and site specific dashlets
Site visibility: public, moderate, private; and the function to invite users and manage users at site level
Probably other functionality that do not come to my mind right now
As I mentioned, the "document library" is one of the pages in a site. It is designed to collaborate on contents. If you are using sites, use the document library for contents on which users will collaborate. These contents are stored in the path:
/Sites/site-name/documentLibrary/
You can definitely create contents directly in /Sites/site-name/ but it won't be visible in the "document library" page of the site. This is what Alfresco does to store other type of contents associated with a site such as: data lists, calendar events, discussions, etc...
If your repository is accessed only with a custom application by CMIS, I am not sure that you will get any benefit using sites.
I wouldn't use it if you would end up with a single site.
I would suggest to use it, if you think that it can be useful to "invite" users to sites and assign permissions based on roles.
I´m using Alfresco-LDAP to migrate all my ldap users to Alfresco service.
So far I achieve transfer all users but for every user the home folder created in Alfresco for them is his name, and what I would like, is to share a folder for all members of the ldap group, since I have multiple groups and every user of that group only can get files from that group.
This is the property
ldap.synchronization.defaultHomeFolderProvider
I read in the Alfresco documentation http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Security_and_Authentication#Creating_home_spaces_-_from_1.4_onwards
But seems like what I´m trying to do is not contemplated.
Any suggestion please?
unfortunately there is no configurable HomeFolderProvider for groups supporting specific spaces. You need to crate your own HomeFolderProvider in Java for that. Out of the box you could use the companyHomeFolderProvider which is normally used if you want to disable the homefolder feature. The user object requires a userhome to be able to log in and the work around is to set the root (company_home) for that.
s.
[1] https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Security_and_Authentication#Creating_home_spaces_-_from_1.4_onwards
[2] Disable the user home folder creation
I have folders in share shared folder. Is there any way to specify share to search for a particular file in particular folder of the shared folders?
Yes, but there is no user friendly out of the box solution (I know of).
As admin, go to http://your-host.domain.name/share/page/console/admin-console/node-browser and execute a (fts-alfresco) search like the following:
PATH:"/app:company_home/app:shared//*" AND #cm\:name:"filename.txt"
This will find all files named "filename.txt" below the shared folder.
I guess you will have to customize the search UI if you want to offer that functionality in a user friendly fashion or to non admin users.
Further details are at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Search#Path_Queries
We've developed a solutions where you can search within a folder through the advanced search form: http://addons.alfresco.com/addons/alfresco-share-folder-search
It's free for download so you can look around how it's done.
In short: in 4.2.e you can send an extra param rootNode to the /slingshot/search repo webscript.
If you check the client side JavaScript in Share components/search/search.js
There is method _buildSearchParams The following params are send: site={site}&term={term}&tag={tag}&maxResults={maxResults}&sort={sort}&query={query}&repo={repo}&rootNode={rootNode}&pageSize={pageSize}&startIndex={startIndex}
So fill in the rootNode with a qnamePath or NodeRef and it will present the results of that folder.
For a possible implementation, I wrote a long post about it on the alfresco community forum .
I`m looking for some solution which will make my directory with pictures secured.
In my page only Administrator have permission to upload the pictures. User have opportunity only to view a picture for products. I want to make directory more secured. I want to make it difficult to download all pictures from some kind of scripts.
For now I tried with .htpaccess and .htpasswd it work fine but when User trying to see the product page(where are available pictures form secured folder) htpaccess is requiring a username and password.
Is it possible to enter username and password to this directory from server side when user is watching the product page. And in case that he open a link of the picture in new window then user name and password is required?
Do you know some other solutions?
Cheers
Don't store the images in your web folder where everyone can access them. Instead, store them outside of the web path (for example in app/data or so) and use a symfony controller to deliver them. This way you can use the symfony security component.
In addition to good answer by #Pierre, you can use a filesystem abstraction layer. I'd recommend using Gaufrette. To integrate it with Symfony, you could use KnpGaufretteBundle.
It will give you way more flexibility as
using external filesystems (ex. Amazon S3, FTP, sFTP)
use Symfony Security component or ACL.
Everything depends on your need and your approach in the project. However, if you need some flexibility, I'd recommend try it out.