Is there anyway to NOT ALLOW a user from changing their preferences ?

[rabii]

sorry i have just seen your message nunos. I am glad it is working now, if you face any issues feel free to reach out

[nunos]

Hi rabii, just tried the above solution but not working... blank screen and nothing happens... using version 8.1.1.
Any workaround?

Update: it's working! i was doing something wrong... just works perfect!!! thanks!

[rabii]

glad it still works thanks for your word mate

[shalmaxb]

Still works. Under Admin account: visible, other users: not visible. Really great. I hope some day I will be able to re-contribute to you.

[shalmaxb]

Thank you very much. I will try and if it works on more recent versions, I will mention here.

[rabii]

Hey shalmaxb

Yes that was my first solution which was to remove the preference from the menu on the top right. and below what i have done to achieve it (Remember this will only hide it from the UI) however if a user know the url for preference they would still be able to access. Also this was done on previous version not sure it is impacted with the new version, anyway try it out and see how it goes.


1 - Create App.json under custom\Espo\Custom\Resources\metadata\clientDefs

{
    "navbarView" : "custom:views/site/navbar"
}​ 

2 - Create the new custom view navbar.js under client\custom\src\views\site

define('custom:views/site/navbar', ['views/site/navbar'], function (Dep) {

    return Dep.extend({

        getMenuDataList: function () {

            var list = Dep.prototype.getMenuDataList.call(this);

            if (!this.getUser().isAdmin()) {
                list = list.filter(item => item.link !== '#Preferences');
            }
            
            return list;
        },
    });

});​ 

I hope this helps

[shalmaxb]

rabii, hello,
I currently have that same problem. Your solution in the following thread already helped, thank you.
In this comment, you mention, that you customized the navbar to get rid of the preferences link. How did you do that. I tried a solution from another thread, which did not work.
Perhaps you still have that code on hand, I thank you in advance.

[rabii]

thank you @yuri
i have managed to create custom preference view that check if user is Regular then show a different layout and it works. i will check your solution though to see how it is different.

[yuri]

Maybe define a custom API route for PUT Preferences/:id that will throw Forbidden exception if logged not by admin. Otherwise, call service->update.

[rabii]

thanks for sharing that is exactly what i did. i first went through customising the navbar and user view to hide the preferences from the menu but didn't like that then i thought customising the preferences would work and it worked.

[rabii]

Hey all,

Thanks for your help and support, my use case was to hide notifications from the preference view to not allow regular user to disable them, after tinkering around i found a way around which does exactly what i want, below is what i did :

1 - created a custom Preferences.json under custom directory (clientDefs) and defined a new custom edit view as below:

{
   "recordViews":{
      "edit": "custom:views/preferences/record/edit"
   }
}​ 

2 - Create the custom view under client\custom\src\views\preferences\record\edit.js

define('custom:views/preferences/record/edit', ['views/preferences/record/edit'], function (Dep) {

    return Dep.extend({

        setup: function () {
            Dep.prototype.setup.call(this);

            if (!this.getUser().isAdmin()) {
                this.layoutName = 'detailRegular';
            }
        },
    });
});​ 

3 - As you can see in the code above i have simple condition to check if current user is not admin (means regular) then apply a detailRegular layout which i created as below:

[
    {
        "rows": [
            [{"name": "dateFormat"}, {"name": "timeFormat"}],
            [{"name": "defaultCurrency"}, {"name": "thousandSeparator"}],
            [false, {"name": "decimalMark"}]
        ],
        "tabBreak": true,
        "tabLabel": "$label:Locale"
    },
    {
        "rows": [
            [{"name": "exportDelimiter"}, {"name":"autoFollowEntityTypeList"}],
            [
                {
                    "name": "signature"
                },
                {
                    "name": "defaultReminders"
                }
            ],
            [
                {
                    "name": "emailReplyToAllByDefault"
                },
                {
                    "name": "doNotFillAssignedUserIfNotRequired"
                }
            ],
            [
                {
                    "name": "emailReplyForceHtml"
                },
                {
                    "name": "followEntityOnStreamPost"
                }
            ],
            [
                {
                    "name": "emailUseExternalClient"
                },
                {
                    "name": "followCreatedEntities"
                }
            ],
            [
                {
                    "name": "textSearchStoringDisabled"
                },
                {
                    "name": "followCreatedEntityTypeList"
                }
            ]
        ],
        "tabBreak": true,
        "tabLabel": "$label:Misc"
    },
    {
        "rows": [
            [
                {"name":"theme"},
                false
            ],
            [
                {"name":"useCustomTabList"},
                {"name":"tabList"}
            ],
            [
                {"name":"dashboardLayout", "fullWidth": true}
            ]
        ],
        "tabBreak": true,
        "tabLabel": "$label:User Interface"
    }
]​ 

That is it and it worked as i wanted, the good thing about this approach is its simplicity and also i get to design a whole layout which i can control what the regular user should see and not see.

Hope this help someone when needed.

Thanks again

[item]

Hi Rabii,
of course if i have understand your request.

custom record/edit i do if understand do the trick.
of course you can check if user is admin or regular.

define('custom:views/preferences/record/edit', ['views/preferences/record/edit'], function (Dep) {

    return Dep.extend({

        setup: function () {
            Dep.prototype.setup.call(this);

            hideNotificationPanel = true;

            if (hideNotificationPanel) {
                //this.hidePanel('notifications');
            }
            this.setFieldReadOnly('assignmentNotificationsIgnoreEntityTypeList');

        },
        
        afterRender: function () {
            Dep.prototype.afterRender.call(this);
        },
    });
});​ 

[rabii]

I already tried that before didn't work, my purpose is to Not Allow user to disable notifications (all sort) the preferences entity doesn't have any ACL applied to it so therefore there is no way to disable a specific field for a user. I also tried customising the layout so i could hide only the preferences tab but no success hence there is way to check fi the user type is admin or regular.

[item]

Hi,
Maybe :

application/Espo/Resources/metadata/scopes/Preferences.json

{
    "entity": true,
    "layouts": false,
    "tab": false,
    "acl": false,
    "customizable": true <= change from false to true
}​ 

go to admin/entityManager/Preferences.. set field read only and default value.

To test.

[shalmaxb]

For interest I tried to get rid of these configurations. I copied the folder Preferences from application/Espo/Resources/layouts to the custom folder and in the file detail.json I deleted the lines on the bottom "name": "notifications", which hides that tab completely for everybody.

I know, it is a bit a hard hack, but works.