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First, disable it for everyone as default (or enable it for everyone, depending on what your aim is).  
First, disable it for everyone as default (or enable it for everyone, depending on what your aim is).  


In <tt>/opt/open-xchange/[myproduct].properties</tt>:
In <tt>/opt/open-xchange/etc/[myproduct].properties</tt>:


   com.openexchange.capability.[myproduct]=false # off for everyone
   com.openexchange.capability.[myproduct]=false # off for everyone
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   premium:
   premium:
     com.openexchange.config.capability.[myproduct]: true
     com.openexchange.capability.[myproduct]: true
     withTags: premium
     withTags: premium



Revision as of 13:59, 14 March 2014



Synopsis: How to use capabilities so that your new AppSuite plugin can be enabled or disabled.

What are capabilities?

Usecase

You write a new UI app or plugin (chat module, for example) and in addition, you want to make sure that only a specific set of users or contexts within the system are allowed to use it.

Example: Your chat app should only be available after a user has bought it in your online shop. To do so, you will need to implement the capabilities logic within your UI app or plugin and restrict it to a user or context marked accordingly (called "premium" in further examples).

Set a capability

First, disable it for everyone as default (or enable it for everyone, depending on what your aim is).

In /opt/open-xchange/etc/[myproduct].properties:

 com.openexchange.capability.[myproduct]=false # off for everyone

Then restart the OX Application Server and afterwards use the general OX AppSuite commandline tools to enable the capability/capabilities.

The commandline tools used in the following examples are located in:

 /opt/open-xchange/sbin

In this example, only for a specific user:

 changeuser ... --config/com.openexchange.capability.[myproduct]=true

...or for a full context:

 changecontext -c ... --config/com.openexchange.capability.[myproduct]=true


...or set the capability to a context set:

 changecontext -c ... --taxonomy/types=premium

To get the capability/capabilities working for context sets (like above), you also need to edit the contextSet files in:

 /opt/open-xchange/etc/contextSets/premium.yml

And add the corresponding capability/capabilities:

 premium:
    com.openexchange.capability.[myproduct]: true
    withTags: premium

Then restart the OX Application Server!

Query capabilities via the HTTP API

Query:

 GET /appsuite/api/capabilities?action=all&session=991fd40f635b45...

Response:

 {"data":[{"id":"oauth","attributes":{}},{"id":"webmail","attributes":{}},{"id":"document_preview","attributes":{}},{"id":"printing","attributes":{}},{"id":"spreadsheet","attributes":{}},{"id":"gab","attributes":{}},{"id":"multiple_mail_accounts","attributes":{}},{"id":"publication","attributes":{}},{"id":"rss_bookmarks","attributes":{}},{"id":"linkedin","attributes":{}},{"id":"filestore","attributes":{}},{"id":"ical","attributes":{}},{"id":"rt","attributes":{}},{"id":"olox20","attributes":{}},{"id":"forum","attributes":{}},{"id":"active_sync","attributes":{}},{"id":"conflict_handling","attributes":{}},{"id":"rss_portal","attributes":{}},{"id":"oxupdater","attributes":{}},{"id":"infostore","attributes":{}},{"id":"contacts","attributes":{}},{"id":"collect_email_addresses","attributes":{}},{"id":"facebook","attributes":{}},{"id":"drive","attributes":{}},{"id":"rss","attributes":{}},{"id":"pinboard_write_access","attributes":{}},{"id":"mobility","attributes":{}},{"id":"calendar","attributes":{}},{"id":"participants_dialog","attributes":{}},{"id":"edit_public_folders","attributes":{}},{"id":"text","attributes":{}},{"id":"groupware","attributes":{}},{"id":"msisdn","attributes":{}},{"id":"carddav","attributes":{}},{"id":"tasks","attributes":{}},{"id":"portal","attributes":{}},{"id":"mailfilter","attributes":{}},{"id":"read_create_shared_folders","attributes":{}},{"id":"vcard","attributes":{}},{"id":"pim","attributes":{}},{"id":"caldav","attributes":{}},{"id":"projects","attributes":{}},{"id":"usm","attributes":{}},{"id":"webdav","attributes":{}},{"id":"dev","attributes":{}},{"id":"delegate_tasks","attributes":{}},{"id":"freebusy","attributes":{}},{"id":"subscription","attributes":{}},{"id":"linkedinPlus","attributes":{}},{"id":"autologin","attributes":{}},{"id":"webdav_xml","attributes":{}},{"id":"twitter","attributes":{}}]}

Here id is the name of the capability.

Query capabilities in the UI

 require(['io.ox/core/capabilities'], function (cap) { if cap.has('[myproduct]' { ... } );

Require the capabilities in your UI manifest file

 {
    namespace: ...
    requires: '[myproduct]'
 }

Now your plugin will only be loaded if the capability '[myproduct]' is set for a specific user, context, context set.

Testing the capabilities

  • For testing purposes use an URL parameter to test capabilities.

Add the following parameter to your AppSuite URL in the browser to activate:

 &cap=[myproduct]

or use

 &disableFeature=[myproduct]

to disable a certain capability.

In general, after adding those URL parameters, you need to reload the UI to temporarly test/enable the set capability.

Further informations