[Vtigercrm-developers] Adding a second "user" field?

[nilay khatri]

We gave up after spending a lot of time on this and fixing issues with
permission handling, reports, workflows etc..

Instead, we made a separate module and created a record for each user, and
assigned to respective.

And then made a reference field to this custom module. This helped us to
achieve the client's requirements including reports and things.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:48 PM Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone ever managed to "fix" this?
>
> I need a user-selectable field so a user can choose another user. This
> field is not the Assigned To, it means something completely different.
>
> I know from experience, that adding a second UIType 53 breaks list
> sorting and reports.
>
> A UIType 52 is nearly OK but can't be used by non-admin users and in
> reports the data is shown as the user's id not the first_name + last_name.
>
> TIA
>
> Al
>
>
>
> On 04/05/2018 13:45, Alan Lord wrote:
> > Thanks for the replies - so it sounds like this is still not really
> > possible in any meaningful way.
> >
> > Maybe this should be a new feature for a later release - Maybe introduce
> > a new UIType for the purpose?
> >
> > It would be good if vtiger could comment - but we know Prasad is now on
> > holiday until June ;-)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
> > On 03/05/18 18:41, Oleg Antonov wrote:
> >> Hi Alan!
> >>
> >> I have had two projects with similar problem.
> >>
> >> 1. Flowers delivery company. First they wanted to store just courier
> >> name in orders and I've made simple picklist. Next year they asked for
> >> mobile application for couriers and I've racked my brain. End up on
> >> including login in picklist values (like "John Smith j.smith") and
> >> simple filtering orders on courier name include login of needed
> >> courier. Not very elegant, technically couriers have access to all
> >> orders (limited only on app side) but according webservices API
> >> limitations it was only working solution.
> >>
> >> 2. Other customer sell complex electronic devices and sell team always
> >> include sales and engineer. First we thought to split Opportunity for
> >> two parts: Deal (for sale) and Technical Proposal (for engineer) to
> >> assign them for corresponding users. And track each status separately.
> >> However they have a lot of interaction inside sales team and strong
> >> requirements for role rights limitation. Finally they've decided to
> >> use other CRM which allow to "share" record with other users. It is
> >> vTiger CRM fork, I suppose you know which one.
> >>
> >> Also we thought about "multiple responsible" module from VTE which
> >> make teams from selected user on fly, but in this case entities are
> >> not associated with users directly and they can not make necessary
> >> reports.
> >>
> >> 2018-05-03 13:09 GMT+03:00 Alan Lord
> >> <alanslists at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:alanslists at gmail.com>>:
> >>
> >>     Customer wants to add a field so they can record a secondary staff
> >>     member as having a relationship/responsibility towards an
> >> Organisation.
> >>
> >>
> >>     I know this has cropped up before but wondering if anyone got a
> >>     tested and working solution (i.e. Reports still work).
> >>
> >>     The ways I can think of doing this are:
> >>
> >>     * Simply add a normal, manually created picklist field (no dynamic
> >>     updates of available users etc... A bit of a "last-resort" solution
> >>     IMHO)
> >>
> >>     * UIType 53? Standard Assigned To field - I recall having more then
> >>     one of these in a module used to break things badly, especially
> >> Reports.
> >>
> >>     * UItype 52? - The Modified By/Created By field. Not sure how it
> >>     performs if displaytype is set to normal. Again concerns with
> >> Reports.
> >>
> >>     * Add a UIType 10 field pointing at the Users module? Might work,
> >>     but would probably crash Reporting engine as totally unexpected.
> >>
> >>     * Create a custom UIType field and all the associated code?
> >>
> >>     Anyone used any of these and/or other ideas?
> >>
> >>     TIA
> >>
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