[horde] How to show only some options?

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Alexa Rodriguez <avrodriguez at jusbaires.gov.ar>:

> Hi all!
>
> I need to show the users of my "Horde" only some the options, to  
> achieve this I tried to comments some lines of code in the files  
> "*/config/prefs.php" to show only "some" options, but when the users  
> set up their options they are not saved.
>
> The point is, how I could to modify/to configure Horde to show only   
> some options?
>
> Here an example, a part of "kronolith/config/prefs.php":
>
> <?php
> /**
>  * $Horde: kronolith/config/prefs.php.dist,v 1.99 2008-07-16  
> 20:32:47 mrubinsk Exp $
>  *
>  * See horde/config/prefs.php for documentation on the structure of  
> this file.
>  */
> /*Comment for administrator
> $prefGroups['view'] = array(
>     'column' => _("Display Options"),
>     'label' => _("User Interface"),
>     'desc' => _("Select confirmation options, how to display the  
> different views and choose default view."),
>     'members' => array('confirm_delete', 'defaultview',
>                        'time_between_days', 'week_start_monday',
>                        'day_hour_start', 'day_hour_end', 'day_hour_force',
>                        'slots_per_hour', 'show_icons', 'show_time',  
> 'show_location',
>                        'show_legend', 'show_panel',  
> 'show_fb_legend', 'show_shared_side_by_side', 'show_external_colors'),
> );
> $prefGroups['summary'] = array(
>     'column' => _("Display Options"),
>     'label' => _("Portal Options"),
>     'desc' => _("Select which events to show in the portal."),
>     'members' => array('summary_days', 'summary_alarms'),
> );
> End of comment*/
>
> $prefGroups['share'] = array(
>     'column' => _("Calendars"),
>     'label' => _("Default Calendar"),
>     'desc' => _("Choose your default calendar."),
>     'members' => array('shareselect'),
> );
>
> if (!empty($GLOBALS['conf']['holidays']['enable'])) {
>     $prefGroups['holidays'] = array(
>         'column' => _("Calendars"),
>         'label' => _("Holidays"),
>         'desc' => _("Choose which holidays to display"),
>         'members' => array('holiday_drivers'),
>     );
> }
>
> $prefGroups['event_options'] = array(
>     'column' => _("Events"),
>     'label' => _("Event Defaults"),
>     'desc' => _("Set default values for new events."),
>     'members' => array('default_alarm_management'),
> );
> /*Comment for administrator
> $prefGroups['maintenance'] = array(
>     'column' => _("Events"),
>     'label' => _("Maintenance"),
>     'desc' => _("Set options for deleting old events."),
>     'members' => array('purge_events', 'purge_events_interval',  
> 'purge_events_keep')
> );
> End of comment*/
>
> $prefGroups['notification'] = array(
>     'column' => _("Events"),
>     'label' => _("Notifications"),
>     'desc' => _("Choose how you want to be notified about event  
> changes, event alarms and upcoming events."),
>     'members' => array('event_notification',  
> 'event_notification_exclude_self', 'daily_agenda', 'event_reminder'),
> );
> if (!empty($GLOBALS['conf']['alarms']['driver'])) {
>     $prefGroups['notification']['members'][] = 'event_alarms';
> }
>
> $prefGroups['freebusy'] = array(
>     'column' => _("Calendars"),
>     'label' => _("Free/Busy Information"),
>     'desc' => _("Set your Free/Busy calendars and your own and other  
> users' Free/Busy options."),
>     'members' => array('fb_cals_select', 'freebusy_days'),
> );
> /*Comment for administrator
> if ($GLOBALS['registry']->hasMethod('contacts/sources')) {
>     $prefGroups['addressbooks'] = array(
>         'column' => _("Other Options"),
>         'label' => _("Address Books"),
>         'desc' => _("Select address book sources for adding and  
> searching for addresses."),
>         'members' => array('display_contact', 'sourceselect'),
>     );
> }
> End of comment*/
>
>
> I have installed:
>
> Apache/2.2.3
> Php 5.2.0
> Horde  4.0-cvs
> kronolith H3 (3.0-cvs)
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help, Alexa

You should lock (and provide sensible values where needed) the  
individual prefs that you don't want to be available to users. Don't  
comment out the prefGroups. The individual prefs are further down the  
same file.


Thanks,
mike

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