[Vtigercrm-developers] vtiger custom event handler and workflows: $current_user

[Tony Sandman]

Any clue when, new major version will be released?

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On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:45 PM Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just FYI - with the #899 patch I can do what I need with an Event
> Handler, but not with a custom Workflow function.
>
> $current_user in the custom Workflow function always seems to be admin.
>
> Al
>
> On 31/05/2019 12:44, Alan Lord wrote:
> > Ignore this particular issue.
> >
> > For some reason the system I was developing on didn't have the patch
> > from #899 in it :-(
> >
> > http://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/issues/899
> >
> > Sorry for the noise.
> >
> > Al
> >
> > On 31/05/2019 12:22, Alan Lord wrote:
> >> I raised a ticket [1] loosely related to this subject not so long ago
> >> but it seems the issue is more widespread... A quick search of google
> >> shows quite a few people coming up against the same problems...
> >>
> >>
> >> I wanted to write a Custom Workflow function that would populate a
> >> field with the $current_user's user_name when they changed a certain
> >> field to something else.
> >>
> >> Using a Workflow function proved unworkable because by the time the
> >> workflow function was triggered the $current_user is set to "admin".
> >>
> >> So I thought I'd try and event Handler instead and use the
> >> VTEntityDelta to determine if the right field had been changed...
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, vtiger.event.aftersave, and
> >> vtiger.event.aftersave.final both exhibit the same problem - the
> >> global var $current_user is always "admin" irrespective of which user
> >> actually triggered the event.
> >>
> >> vtiger_even.beforesave and beforesave.final do have the correct
> >> $current_user, but they do not have a delta.
> >>
> >>  From my searches online these changes seem to have happened with a
> >> fairly recent update but I am not clear where or when this happened.
> >>
> >> But irrespective - this is extremely annoying and has wasted a lot of
> >> my time.
> >>
> >> [1] http://code.vtiger.com/vtiger/vtigercrm/issues/1125
> >>
>
>
>
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