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This section shows you how to create, update, and remove groups from the portal via two ways:
Directly inline, via the UI of eXo Platform. See the Managing groups section for more details.
In your extension, via the configuration file as below:
You can follow the snippet below to list groups which are children of the platform group:
try {
Group platformGroup = groupHandler.findGroupById("/platform");
Collection<Group> groups = groupHandler.findGroups(platformGroup);
for (Group group : groups) {
writer.append("<dl class='dl-horizontal'>");
writer.append("<dt>Id:</dt>");
writer.append("<dd>" + group.getId() + "</dd>");
writer.append("<dt>Name:</dt>");
writer.append("<dd>" + group.getGroupName() + "</dd>");
writer.append("<dt>Label:</dt>");
writer.append("<dd>" + group.getLabel() + "</dd>");
writer.append("</dl>");
}
The groups list is displayed like this in your product:
Creating a group
Create a portlet action, then add the snippet below to it.
Group group = groupHandler.createGroupInstance();
group.setGroupName("newgroup");
group.setLabel("New Group");
Group platformGroup = groupHandler.findGroupById("/platform");
groupHandler.addChild(platformGroup, group, false);
Executing the portlet action allows creating a group called newgroup which is the child of the platform group.
Updating a group
After creating a group, you should update a label for it as its display name.
Group newGroup = groupHandler.findGroupById("/platform/newgroup");
newGroup.setLabel("New Group Updated");
groupHandler.saveGroup(newGroup, false);
The snippet above allows setting the New Group Updated label for the newgroup group.
Removing a group
Create a portlet action which executes the snippet below to remove a group, for example newgroup:
Group newGroup = groupHandler.findGroupById("/platform/newgroup");
groupHandler.removeGroup(newGroup, false);