Permission table tabs?

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rugcutter — Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:50 pm

I’m looking to include a table tab for “ADMIN” role users to manage the “Users” table. However I want to hide this tab for users that do not belong in the “ADMIN” role.

There was a previous post circa 2006 on how this might be done. viewtopic.php?t=3971#19896

But I’m still a little lost.

There are two places I see where it can be done -

1) Dataface_NavMenu.html - it looks like I should use Smarty to interrogate the user’s role, but I’m not sure if this is the right way to go about doing this?

2) implement block__table_tabs() in the delegate class - I can get the user’s role easily here, but not sure what the function should be returning?

Thanks in advance!

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shannah — Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:59 pm

Use the tables_menu_tail block. You can just output <li> tags that will appear as tabs at the end of your table tabs.

e.g.

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function block__tables_menu_tail(){     $q = Dataface_Application::getInstance()->getQuery();     if ( isAdmin() ){         echo '<li '.(($q['-table'] == 'users')?'class="selected":'').'><a href="?-table=users">Users</a></li>';     } }

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strast — Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:42 pm

Correction– there’s a missing single quote in that code that will throw an error.

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function block__tables_menu_tail() {   $q = Dataface_Application::getInstance()->getQuery();   if ( isAdmin() ) {     echo '<li '.(($q['-table'] == 'users')?'class="selected"':'').'><a href="?-table=users">Users</a></li>'; }

–Steve