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Disable Download Action in Alfresco Share 3.3g 

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Disable Download Action in Alfresco Share 3.3g

by cfpatel » 28 Jun 2010, 10:40

Dear Friends ,

I am new to Alfresco using Community Edition 3.3 g .Can any one help me out to disable the download action option while previewing the file from alfresco share. Also give some useful tips to use WebDav with alfresco .

Its Urgent,

Thank You In Advance,

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Re: Disable Download Action in Alfresco Share 3.3g

by brauliotrujillo » 16 Jul 2010, 16:08

i don´t know if you still need to disable the download action or if you already found a solution, i had the same issue and after looking everywhere and not finding nothing i decided to give it a try myself and this is what i came up with,

i realized that when you login as admin there is some admin specific actions that no other user can see so i thought there must be a way to do the same for the download action, so whar i did was to look in the xml file containing that behavior, which is "document-actions.get.config.xml" and change the permissions, for example, if i wanted that a user could download the file, i changed his role to collaborator which has "edit" permissions, so i set the download to "permissions=edit" and if i didn´t want the user to be able to download i change the role of the user to contributor or consumer and then they couldn´t see the download action button.

Don´t forget to backup before you do any changes

Here´s a piece of code from the original xml file regarding the download behavior:

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Note that "onActionDownload" which is the download action, and "onActionView" which is the view in browser action, don´t have a permission so everybody can see it, on the other hand, "onActionDetails", which is the "Edit Metadata" action have permission=edit", only user with editing privileges ( Admin, SiteManagers and Collaborators ) can see that action button.

So if you only want user with "Edit" privileges to be able to download files, set the permission as is:

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This way not only they won´t be able to download it but also they will not be able to see it in the browser and easily make a copy from there. There´s several lines in the same xml file regarding download and view, so change them all. You will have to do the same for the folder-actions.get.config.xml.

For added security, if you only want the admin or sitemanager to be able to download, set the permissions to permission="delete", so only users with Delete privileges can download.

Unfortunately, Alfresco Share being such a wonderful collaboration app, it has two other ways of downloading the file, in the Version History there is also a download button, and in the Sharing section you can see the download url for the file, so what i did is to add an <#if user.isAdmin> tag to the document-versions.get.html.ftl.

Here´s the original piece of code regarding the download button, its almost at the end of the file:

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       ${msg("link.download")}
               <#if version_index != 0>
                  ${msg("link.revert")}
               

And this is the code that will only allow the Admin to see that button:

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       <#if user.isAdmin>
               ${msg("link.download")}
       
               <#if version_index != 0>
                  ${msg("link.revert")}
               

Now for the document-links you can do the same to hide the "download file url" and "document url"

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<#if user.isAdmin>
   

     

${msg("document-links.download")}

     
     
   

   
   
   

     

${msg("document-links.view")}

     
     
   

<#if repositoryUrl??>
   
   

     

${msg("document-links.webdav")}

     
     
   

   <#-- cifs link (N/A)
   

     

${msg("document-links.cifs")}

     
     
   

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Hopefully i explained myself and maybe i helped with this issue.

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Re: Disable Download Action in Alfresco Share 3.3g

by utpal.desai » 13 Sep 2010, 14:18

Thanks it helped me lot....!

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Re: Disable Download Action in Alfresco Share 3.3g

by utpal.desai » 14 Sep 2010, 15:45

I am able to disable all the options to save pdf on to desktop, I am not able to search in swf viewer.

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