[Vtigercrm-developers] junior admin

[Prasad]

Had introduced field (is_role_admin) for Users, had to explicit checks when
its turned on.

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Adam Heinz <amh at metricwise.net> wrote:

> We've had moderate success adding new actions to vtiger_actionmapping,
> then using normal permissions logic from there.  What approach did your 5.1
> customization take?
>
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> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com> wrote:
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>>  Adam,
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> We had developed customization (version: 5.1.0) - (concept:
>> role-based-admin) but
>> the complexity of separating areas within module for admin only access
>> would raise
>> challenges of maintenance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Prasad
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>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Adam Heinz <amh at metricwise.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  Has anyone given any serious thought to segmenting the admin
>>> privileges?  Year after year, I find myself building more tools that
>>> circumvent admin to allow our customers to self-manage within
>>> boundaries.  One example is that we allow manager level users to reset
>>> passwords for their subordinates and to create new user accounts with
>>> subordinate roles.  Another is that I've created a module around the lead
>>> source picklist to allow users to add or modify values.  These all seem
>>> like workarounds, but the blanket is_admin check is a bit too coarse for
>>> our purposes.
>>>
>>> Opinions?
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