[Vtigercrm-developers] Question on Role based Picklists

[Uma S]

Thanks! for the notification will check and get back to you soon.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13/02/15 07:45, Alan Lord wrote:
>
>>
>> What my customer has asked, which I kind of like, is so that the user
>> should be able to "see" the values, but should not be able to choose
>> values that are not in his Role.
>>
>> Having been delving into the depths of the validation engine in 6, I
>> think this kind of test may well be possible to do but, as vtiger 6 is
>> right now the user won't see these values of course.
>>
>
> Well, I just did a test on a clean vtiger 6.2.0 and role-based picklist
> handling is a bit of a mess frankly, it all depends on the view you are
> currently in:
>
> * In List view a value I am not allowed to choose simply says "Access
> Denied"
>
> * When looking at a record in Summary or Detail View a non-privileged user
> can *see* the value that is already set in the picklist, even if it is a
> value they are not allowed to choose. But if you click the pencil icon to
> edit it you *must* then change it to something you are allowed; there is no
> way to cancel the edit at all
>
> * In Edit view loading the screen *resets* the picklist to a blank option
> forcing the user to set it to something they are able to choose or leave
> blank if not a mandatory field
>
> IMHO this is all very inconsistent and confusing for the user.
>
> Al
>
>
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Uma.S
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