[Vtigercrm-developers] junior admin

Adam Heinz amh at metricwise.net
Fri Apr 19 14:31:42 UTC 2013


Is that patch anywhere I can look at it?


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Prasad <prasad at vtiger.com> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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