[Vtigercrm-developers] Question on Role based Picklists

[Alan Lord]

On 16/02/15 08:25, Uma S wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> We have raised a ticket
> <http://trac.vtiger.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/8471> for this issue in
> trac, will look into this.

lol - you know things are getting bas when you wake up dreaming about 
vtiger!!!!

I've been thinking about this Role-based Picklist question some more.

To recap, our customer wants all users to be able to see what a picklist 
value is set to, but not to be able to set it to certain values based on 
their role...

The way the user interface works now is a bit messy and inconsistent 
depending on the view you are in.

I had two thoughts about possible solutions when I woke up dreaming 
about this:

1. When a user views a record he sees the value the Picklist is set to. 
When he clicks on the field to edit it, he sees all the picklist values 
he is permitted to see by his role *plus* the current value the record 
is set to. This means he can change it to whatever he is allowed to, but 
can also handle the problem when he clicked by accident and wants to 
leave it as it was. (This is not possible right now)

2. When a user views a record he sees the value the Picklist is set to. 
When he clicks on the field to edit it there is a new event handler 
added that fires on first focus. It shows a popup telling the user that 
they won't be able to change the picklist to certain values, including 
the one that is current and he is given the option to cancel or continue.

Personally I prefer 1. It seems much more intuitive and less annoying 
for the user...

Thoughts, comments?

Cheers

Al