[Koha-devel] Permission vs System preference

[Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Heather Braum (NEKLS) <hbraum at nekls.org>wrote:
>
>> We are interested at some point in a development that would hide the "Edit
>> items in batch"; "Delete items in batch"; and "Delete all items" options
>> in the Edit menu of the detail.pl page through either a user permission
>> or a system preference. It was suggested I contact the developers list to
>> see what community developers think about this as a permission vs system
>> preference.
>>
>
> I'm in favor of permissions (and also a little confused) because ... two
> of those menu options are already protected by permissions, specifically
> tools/items_batchdel and tools/items_batchmod.
>
> There is no permission (other than the general permission that grants the
> ability to edit items) guarding the 'Delete all items' permission, but I
> think it would be reasonable to add one or two, perhaps along the lines of:
>
> editcatalogue/delete_items
> editcatalogue/delete_all_items
>
>
As Galen points a real solution is to have permissions, but as a workaround
you could try to hide those options
using intranetuserjs system preference, with this code

$(document).ready(function(){
 var itemlinks = $("a:contains('Edit items in batch'),a:contains('Delete
items in a batch'),a:contains('Delete all items')");
 $(itemlinks).hide();
});

As this value is stored in the database, you don't need to change anything
after an upgrade,
unless the text in the options change, then you will only need to update
the syspref.
Only a workaround.

Regards,
Bernardo
-- 
Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
bgkriegel at gmail.com
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