[Vtigercrm-developers] Discussion: Bug or Feature?

[Alan Lord]

I was doing a small job for a customer the other day.

They wanted certain Organisation records made read-only after some 
conditions were met.

So we wrote a workflow to re-assign the records to a dummy user & role 
that had a special sharing rule to allow public, but read only, visibilty.

That was fine - the Account record itself was visible but read only. 
*However*, the related list buttons like Add Event, or Select Contact 
etc. were still live and I could happily add new Contacts or Calendar 
activities to this record - which to my mind means it isn't really 
read-only.

Thinking on this a bit more, it seems to me that this would be a rather 
a hard problem to crack.

As an aside, the customer decided not to go down this route anyway 
because they didn't want the records re-assigned nor publicly visible. 
This is another permissions requirement that I don't think is possible 
either; making particular records read-only, without changing their 
owner? (Would be a nice feature, add a read-only flag to crmentity.)

Cheers and have a good weekend.


Al