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[Tom Barton <>]

Thanks. I've created GRP-52 to track this. -Tom

GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing wrote:
> I'll have a go at creating a pluggable interface for vetoing menu items 
> and produce an implementation which can veto based on Group membership.
>
> Gary
>
> --On 17 October 2007 14:48 -0500 Tom Barton 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
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> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing