Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

On the call today I took an AI to dig out Gary's suggested approach for 
a work around to deploy at Duke to prevent the UI from letting TAadmins 
choose a path through the UI that is frustratingly slow, ie, to 
selectively disable the Manage Groups task. Hre's the gist of what Gary 
wrote.

This idea will need to be elaborated into an actual code change so that 
it can be evaluated for suitability. Shilen, is that up your alley, or 
is that more yours, Gary?

Tom

on 7/14/2007 Gary wrote:
> [AI] {Gary} will share an email with the list giving an idea of how to
> modify menu items based on who you are and which groups you belong to.

The UI customisation guide on the Wiki gives an overview: 
<https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Customizing+the+Grouper+UI+v1.0#CustomizingtheGrouperUIv1.0-menu> 
however, the url will change with the official release of Version 1.2.

Basically, subclass PrepareMenuAction and override the method:

protected boolean isValidMenuItem(Map item,GrouperSession 
grouperSession,HttpServletRequest request)

- put your logic first but if not returning false, delegate to the super 
class.

In order to have the UI use the PrepareMenuAction subclass you must 
override / replace the prepareMenu.do action config in struts-config.xml.