Knowledge Category Restrict Create

[carlosrlara]

We are on Geneva Patch 9 and have enabled Knowledge V3 since Fuji, One glaring problem i have with the new knowledge is that anyone can add categories. I would like to have a before update business rule abort the action and relay a message to the end user that they can not. Unless they are a knowledge admin or knowledge manager role.

[Chuck Tomasi]

It appears this is done at the Knowledge base level. See image below. Go to Knowledge> Administration> Knowledge Bases and update the record accordingly.

If you check that box, the "+" no longer appears in the category picker.

[carlosrlara]

Chuck,

This actually disables everyone from editing the categories. I wanted to allow knowledge admins / knowledge managers to still have access to that. Otherwise, i have to manually create the relationships which isnt a huge problem but the beauty of the category picker is it does it automatically for a user.

I went to knowledge> Administration> Knowledge Bases

I see when i configure the form , the option for disable category editing is being blocked by a UI policy

UI POLICY blocking the button from showing? I disabled it and worked as you said. Why is the button disabled inherently?

[Mahesh120]

Hi ,

Am also having a similar situation where in I want knowledge_admins to be able to create Knowledge Categories from the below path.

Knowledge base --> Knowledge Categories --> New option on the list

Surprisingly even a user with Knowledge admin role can't see 'New' button. It appears only Admins and Knowledge Owner or Manager can create.

I have followed existing ACL and created something similar for Knowledge Admins, but 'New' button still won't appear.

However, kb_catgeory.do is working fine. Am little confused.

Any suggestions?

Regards,

Mahesh.

[madhvi]

Hi mahesh,

U can edit "New" UI action.By putting gs.hasRole('knowledge_admin'),knowledge admin will be able to see New button.