Modify live search in Alfresco Commmunity 5.0.d

Question

I am using Alfresco Community 5.0.d and trying to find the files related to live search.

I would like to remove or modify the people finder in live search. Please let me know the files or way to achieve it.

Share-header.get.js info is below:

if (!user.isAdmin)
{
  widgetUtils.deleteObjectFromArray(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_MY_FILES");
  widgetUtils.deleteObjectFromArray(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_SHARED_FILES");

  widgetUtils.deleteObjectFromArray(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_SITES_MENU");
  widgetUtils.deleteObjectFromArray(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_PEOPLE");

  widgetUtils.deleteObjectFromArray(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_REPOSITORY");
  widgetUtils.deleteObjectFromArray(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_BECPG");
}

//Disable people search 
var headerSearch = widgetUtils.findObject(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_SEARCH");
if (headerSearch)
{ 
  headerSearch.config.showPeopleResults = false;       
  headerSearch.config.placeholder="Search files, sites";      
}

Below is extensions.xml

<extension>
    <modules>
        <module>
            <id>Update Site Header</id>
            <version>1.0</version>

true org.alfresco.share.header com.site-header share-header

As I added below lines, now I could see that my file, shared file and other menu items being removed for user(non admin) but no changes in search box.

Credit : Muralidharan

<auto-deploy>true</auto-deploy>
<evaluator type="default.extensibility.evaluator"/>

Screenshot of html structure for search box.

Below is screenshot of modules/deploy:

Screenshot of debug mode :

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

We excluded people search using below script.

//Disable people search 
var headerSearch = widgetUtils.findObject(model.jsonModel, "id", "HEADER_SEARCH");
if (headerSearch)
{ 
  headerSearch.config.showPeopleResults = false;       
  headerSearch.config.placeholder="Search files, sites";      
}

And we placed this file, in the following path. C:\Alfresco5\tomcat\webapps\share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\web-extension\site-webscripts\com\quanticate\header\share-header.get.js

Use the module extension to apply your customisation in Share and store this file into alfresco\web-extension\site-data\extensions\extensions.xml

<extension>
  <modules>
    <module>
      <id>Menu customisation</id>
      <auto-deploy>true</auto-deploy>
      <evaluator type="default.extensibility.evaluator"/>
       <!-- default.extensibility.evaluator is applied to determine if the module should be executed -->
      <customizations>        
         <customization>
            <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco</targetPackageRoot>
            <sourcePackageRoot>com.quanticate.header</sourcePackageRoot> <!-- Your package path should go here -->
            <alwaysApply>
               <webscript>share-header</webscript>
            </alwaysApply>
         </customization>
      </customizations>
    </module>
  </modules>
</extension>

Answer 2

I followed below link and it worked like a charm.

https://community.alfresco.com/message/806438-re-not-able-to-disable-suggestion-in-alfresco?commentID=806438&et=watches.email.thread#comment-806438

Summary: Override the live-search-people.get.json.ftl file to produce no result for live search.

Steps:

1. Extract alfresco-remote-api-5.0.d (/Applications/alfresco-5.0.d/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib)
2. Goto /Applications/alfresco-5.0.d/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/lib/alfresco-remote-api-5.0.d/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/search and copy live-search-people.get.json.ftl
3. Then goto Applications/alfresco-5.0.d/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/templates/webscripts/org/alfresco/slingshot/search (create new directory if not exist) and paste the file copied earlier

4. Open that file in editor like sublime text and replace with following code.

   <#import "../../repository/person/person.lib.ftl" as personLib/>

   <#escape x as jsonUtils.encodeJSONString(x)> { "totalRecords": 0, "startIndex": 0, "items": [ ] }

5. Restart the tomcat and test live search.

Thanks to Angel and Alex for answer followed with clarification.

Interesting finding that I was using Aikau 1.0.8 Because of that the changes recommended by Muralidharan was not working (older version) so now as I move to newer version of Aikau (1.0.101) then those changes are good to go.

Thank you Muralidharan!

/****NOTE****/

If your using older version of Aikau (like 1.0.8) than you have to override the extension Or If your using newer version of Aikau (like 1.0.101) than you can directly make changes.

Answer 3

You have to override the files containing the webscript response. Search for the Freemarker template files which have the rendered output and over-ride it .