How to disable the dashboard

[antoen]

I need to disable the dashboard for all users of our portal.

First of all I tried to remove in conf/gatein/configuration.xml for the PortalContainerDefinition the value dashboard:

<object type="org.exoplatform.container.definition.PortalContainerDefinition">
                    <!-- The path to the external properties file -->
                    <field name="externalSettingsPath">
                        <string>configuration.properties</string>
                    </field>
                    <field name="dependencies">
                        <collection type="java.util.ArrayList">
                            <value>
                                <string>eXoResources</string>
                            </value>
                            <value>
                                <string>portal</string>
                            </value>

<!--                            <value>
                                <string>dashboard</string>
                            </value>

-->

...

...

But the dashboard is still available.

Second I removed dashboard.war but this resulted in lots of ERRORS in the logfile.

Third I searched for the text "dashboard" in gatein.ear and was overwhelmed.

Any idea, how to remove the dashboard?

Best regards,

Anton Kronseder

[trong.tran]

To remove the Dashboard on the toolbars, you should remove the following part in the portal.war/WEB-INF/conf/portal/portal/sharedlayout.xml file

   ...
   <container id="UserToolBarDashboardPortlet" template="system:/groovy/portal/webui/container/UIContainer.gtmpl">
      <portlet-application>
         <portlet>
            <application-ref>exoadmin</application-ref>
            <portlet-ref>UserToolbarDashboardPortlet</portlet-ref>
         </portlet>
         <access-permissions>Everyone</access-permissions>
         <show-info-bar>false</show-info-bar>
      </portlet-application>
   </container>
   ...

[antoen]

Thanks for your help.

This works, but if a user knows the url (e.g. portal/private/classic/portal-user) he can nevertheless use the dashboard.

So now I did not remove the dashboard, but changed the access-permissions to *:/platform/administrator.

Now only administrators can use the dashboard.

This is ok for now, but I would like to disable the dashboard and some other portlets specified in the sharedlayout.xml even for the administrator!

So I tried to restrict the usage of the dashboard to *:/platform/nobody and declared a new group nobody with no members, but the administarator is still able to use the dashboard, when he knows the url.

Any hints?

Best regards,

Anton Kronseder

[trong.tran]

the a Dashboard notion here is just an user's page that contains a Dashboard portlet.

I do not understand how a user can create a dashboard in your case in your case ?