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

[Alan Lord]

I get you - that's not a bad idea ...

Thanks.


Al

On 13/03/2020 13:32, nilay khatri wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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