[Vtigercrm-developers] Interested? Multiple Portals with different permissions

[Alan Lord]

Here's some thoughts.

I have recently just hacked vtiger 6 and the portal to allow multiple 
portal sites access to the same vtiger. It was a fairly simple 
requirement but is not possible without editing core code (like the way 
the email template is HARDRCODED in the Contact class). So I can see 
this as a useful enhancement.

Some general comments about the portal in vtiger 7...

IMHO, the current Portal module configuration tool inside vtiger is not 
that good.

There are a few really annoying bugs (reported on code.vtiger.com) and 
there is no way to extend it to allow the portal to work with other 
modules, e.g. custom modules without modifying code.

The access control is extremely limited and again there is no way to, 
for example, give create or even edit rights, to a different module than 
is already permitted by the code.

The Portal itself is not easy to extend.


Al


On 20/06/2019 09:26, nilay khatri wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> there is a thread with some discussion on Open Source solution for 
> multiple portals.
> 
> 
> We have been thinking about this and have come up with following 
> approach to start with:
> 
> 1. A setting page where admin user can define various types of portals. 
> This would be an enhancement to the existing Portal configuration 
> module. With a change that user can now define multiple portal 
> configurations and define a Unique Name for each of them.
> 2. Separate the Portal fields from Contacts module into a Separate 
> module (Entity type). Which would act as a Junction between Contacts and 
> Various Portals.
> So basically 1 record per contact per portal.
> 
> The advantage here is:
> - we can have a field in contacts module such as Type/Category. based on 
> the type a Contact could be automatically assigned access to portal via 
> workflows.
> - we can create multiple portals with a different set of access such as 
> for Project, Referrals, Support etc.
> - requires minimal code changes
> - gives more control on which user can give access to portals, as the 
> Junction module would be an entity module
> 
> Feedback, Opinion?
> 
> Are you interested to contribute?
> 
> 
> 
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