TS 5.0.2 custom menu items by branch?

TeamSite: v 5.0.2
O/S: NT 4

Has anyone found a way to create a custom menu item that is only visible/available from specific branches?

Dan Bowker
Northern Trust Company

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tvaughan

I'm on Solaris, but my experience is that you can't. I know that TeamSite manages to differentiate between being in a WORKAREA and a branch, but differentiating between branches can't be easily done.

I'm in the middle of writing a custom menu item that will do a lot of the processing for me. My situation is that I have several branches off of default/main. One is internet, one is intranet, one is extranet, etc. I've got multiple Deployment scripts written for each branch (total ~10 scripts). But I don't want to enable a "Deploy to Internet" script for someone within my extranet branch.

To solve this problem, I grouped all 10 Deployment scripts under a single menu item called "Deploy." The Deploy cgi calls out to a bunch of ACLs and what-not I've set up to figure out which set of the 10 total deployments to display to the (user, branch, role) combination.

Sucks, huh?
Tom

starding

The nice thing would be, if custom-menu-items were only visible for users in a particular branch - but I don't think this is possible at the moment (in 5.02). I made a deployment script, that checks for the correct path like this (perl):

use TeamSite::CGI_lite;
my $cgi = TeamSite::CGI_lite->new();
$cgi->parse_data();

#value: Y:\default\main\mybranch\WORKAREA\myworkarea
# the area from which the menu generation script is called (e.g. "Y:") :
my $area = $cgi->{form}{'area_path'};

Check the $area variable to see if the user is in the right branch\area, display error message if not.

regards, Søren Tarding, IconMedialab