Removing Views from Mayan

[Rachael Sewell]

Hello,

I'm looking for the best way to customize/remove some views in Mayan. Currently, we won't need:

Trash (deleting documents)

Indexes
Folders

Checkouts

Signatures

I'm able to comment out adding menu items to the menu_main and menu_facet, and menu_object in apps.py to customize what I see, but I'm not sure that this is the right place to remove the view. 

What I'd like to do is customize the navigation bar to include:

* A logout button drop-down from the User button on the right

* A create document link

* Recent Documents

Then I would remove those duplicate items from the home page area. 

Ideally, I'd like to add a button to display My Workflow and My Documents to the navigation bar.

Any pointers to the right place to do this to allow compatibility with Mayan would be great.

Rachael

[Roberto Rosario]

Hi,

To customize the navigation create a bare-bones app. In the ready() method unbind the links of the other apps.

        from common import menu_main, menu_front_page
        from folders.links import link_folder_list

        # Remove "Folders" link from main menu

        menu_main.unbind_links(
            links=(link_folder_list,),
        )

        # Remove Trash link from home page

        from documents.links import link_document_list_deleted

        menu_front_page.unbind_links(

            links=(
                link_document_list_deleted,
            )
        )

        # Add "New document" to main menu

        from sources.links import link_document_create_multiple
        menu_main.bind_links(
            links=(link_document_create_multiple,),
        )

The logic to bind a link to a menu is

menu_instance.bind_link(

links=<link instances list>,

source=<which classes of object or which views>

)

Values of Source:

• If source is omitted the link will always be enabled (such as in the main menu).
• Specifying a class will only enable the link is an instance of that class is present in the rendered view context.
• Specifying a string as the source will enable the link for a specific view.
  

The logic to unbind a link is the same, only using the 'unbind' method.

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[Rachael Sewell]

Hi Roberto,

I noticed that some of the links will be removed but not all of the ones that I unbind. I created a new app navigation_customize and added it to my installed apps and then called the unbind_link() method. I noticed that some of the links would be removed and that depended on where in the list of installed apps, that I added navigation_customize. Is there an order of operations issue here? I ended up just removing several apps from the project to remove all of the unnecessary views:

Checkouts

Indexes

Folders

Signatures

Rachael

[Roberto Rosario]

That is an unexpected behavior. The unbind method stores unbinded links in their own list (https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/blob/master/mayan/apps/navigation/classes.py#L192) this way they can be removed from the resolved links list even if they are unbinded before or after being created (https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/blob/master/mayan/apps/navigation/classes.py#L173). The idea is making unbinding commutative.

A test is needed to diagnose and fix this.

[Diego R.]

This post is exaclty what i'm looking for. There is a guide somewhere to help me create a "bare bones app", unbind the menus and all the stuff talked about here? I just want a very simple Document Archive with a search function and ACL. Can someone help me? Thanks!

[Rachael Sewell]

Hi Diego,

Unfortunately, i won't be much help. I want able to get all the features I needed to work in Mayan. There were some limitations which prevented me from making all the modifications I needed. I ended up using a different open source project called seeddms. I ended up forking it from sourceforge and modifying it heavily on github.

Github.com/rachmari/seeddms

Github.com/rachmari/seedbox

Rachael

All the best,

Rachael

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