Hide Notification from Personal menu

Hi,I would like to hide Notification from Personal menu for a specific group of people. I tried Appearance but it does not have the option of just hiding Notification. Is it doable with Oscript?Any help will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.Regards,Peter

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Howard_Pell

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Hello Peter,

This isn’tas easy as one might suppose. In the first place all these menus are cachedwhen Livelink starts up. I believe this is done primarily for performancereasons but the downside is that each user sees the identical menus withidentical contents. This means that even if you hacked the OScript to see whatgroup the user is in, you’d have to refresh the menu for _everyone_ for every time any page with themenus is repainted.

I have attacheda modification to the menucomponent.html file that you can use as an example. Iwrote this code to hide a couple of RM menu items from average users but stillmake it available to those that need it. It doesn’t do exactly what youwant but the concept is similar.

Of course, theusual disclaimers apply: this example code is unsupported by Open TextCorporation, OTC doesn’t warrant that it works, OTC takes noresponsibility, etc. etc. But please let me know if you have any questionsabout my code, or if there is anything I can do to help.

Howard
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Hide Notification from Personal menu

Posted by eu0014893admin (Chan, Peter) on 08/01/2007 01:52 AM

Hi,

I would like to hide Notification from Personal menu for a specific group of people. I tried Appearance but it does not have the option of just hiding Notification. Is it doable with Oscript?

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Peter

Bettina_Mastroianni

Peter,it's not really a standard request, so don't think you'll be able to configure the change through admin pages.Clearly there are few ways to work around it:1. and cleanest solution: provided your notifications are running and enabled, if you had a distributed architecture (at least two web/livelink servers) you could leave the first server as it is while messing around with notification settings in the second server's opentext.ini file.If your edit the config/opentext.ini file you'll find aEnableNotification=TRUE change it toEnableNotification=FALSE and a section named[loader]load=sockserv;agents;notify;wfagent;javaserverload_relagent=relagentchange it to[loader]load=sockserv;agents;wfagent;javaserverload_relagent=relagentsave the file.PS: do not do the change from Admin pages, because it would affect also the second Livelink instance.Then somehow you'll have to find the way, (loadbalancer/dns/pdc configuration), to redirect the users that don't have to access the personal notification menu to the just changed livelink host server.2. dirtier way: code it!Ask your developer to overrride webll, LivelinkNavigationCallbackSubsystem, Items method so that whenever the user belongs to your group the feature fItems will contain all the menu items except for personal notification.3. Extend the "Configure Restricted items" feature you can find in the admin pages, adding the notification item to it. Still your developers will have to mess about with Livelink Navigation Callbacks scripts as the notification is not a proper item/object ( as it doesn't have an associated subtype).CheersBettina

Betsy_Kowan

Bettina,Thanks for your proposed solutions. I think option 1 works fine for now. I may have to look into your option 2 / 3 later when I can't manage the redirection anymore.RegardsPeter