Association control - access denied - alfresco

Question

I'm using Alfresco Share 4.2c and association.ftl to display associations and to allow objects in the repository to be picked. I run into problem to display metadata for user who doesn't have permission to see associated object.
I got an error:
Template processing error:
"get(properties) failed on instance of org.alfresco.repo.template.TemplateNode" get(properties) failed on instance of org.alfresco.repo.template.TemplateNode.
The problematic instruction:----------
==> ${row.item.properties.name!""} escaped ${jsonUtils.encodeJSONString(row.item.properties.name!"")} [on line 36, column 42 in org/alfresco/repository/forms/pickerresults.lib.ftl]
in user-directive pickerResultsLib.pickerResultsJSON [on line 2, column 1 in org/alfresco/repository/forms/pickeritems.post.json.ftl]
and AccessDeniedException.
Any help or advice for this problem is appreciated.
I would also like to have a label on the document details page with text "Access denied".
Maybe I have to create my custom association.ftl?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

copy /alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/repository/forms/pickerresults.lib.ftl to the extension folder and change the following loop
<#list results as row>
{
"type": "${row.item.typeShort}",
"parentType": "${row.item.parentTypeShort!""}",
"isContainer": ${row.item.isContainer?string},
"name": "${row.item.properties.name!""}",
"title": "${row.item.properties.title!""}",
"description": "${row.item.properties.description!""}",
<#if row.item.properties.modified??>"modified": "${xmldate(row.item.properties.modified)}",</#if>
<#if row.item.properties.modifier??>"modifier": "${row.item.properties.modifier}",</#if>
<#if row.item.siteShortName??>"site": "${row.item.siteShortName}",</#if>
"displayPath": "${row.item.displayPath!""}",
"nodeRef": "${row.item.nodeRef}"<#if row.selectable?exists>,
"selectable" : ${row.selectable?string}</#if>
}<#if row_has_next>,</#if>
</#list>
Encapsulate the inside with an extra if row.item.hasPermission("Read")
Something like this:
<#list results as row>
<#if row.item.hasPermission("Read")>
{
"type": "${row.item.typeShort}",
"parentType": "${row.item.parentTypeShort!""}",
"isContainer": ${row.item.isContainer?string},
"name": "${row.item.properties.name!""}",
"title": "${row.item.properties.title!""}",
"description": "${row.item.properties.description!""}",
<#if row.item.properties.modified??>"modified": "${xmldate(row.item.properties.modified)}",</#if>
<#if row.item.properties.modifier??>"modifier": "${row.item.properties.modifier}",</#if>
<#if row.item.siteShortName??>"site": "${row.item.siteShortName}",</#if>
"displayPath": "${row.item.displayPath!""}",
"nodeRef": "${row.item.nodeRef}"<#if row.selectable?exists>,
"selectable" : ${row.selectable?string}</#if>
}<#if row_has_next>,</#if>
</#if>
</#list>