[turba] Restrincting to a shared read-only address book

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:
>
>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Luigi Iotti <horde at iotti.biz>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm new to the list. I'm preparing a locked-in IMP-4.1.3 + Turba-2.1.2
>>>>> environment. All the prefs are locked by default.
>>>>> I'd like to have only one address book, which should be shared
>>>>> and  read-only
>>>>> for all the users, except for an "admin" user who can update the address
>>>>> book. I obtained almost everything I wanted: I created the admin user,
>>>>> created the localsql address book, shared it in the admin user,
>>>>> applied only
>>>>> show and read permissions for others.
>>>>> My users see the address book and are able to use it. They can
>>>>> use  only this
>>>>> address book since I set both the addressbooks and default_dir prefs to
>>>>> localsql:admin.
>>>>> The only thing I can't get rid of is the "My Address Book" button
>>>>>  on the top
>>>>> left of the Turba menu bar and, if I click on it, I am presented with the
>>>>> options to create a new address book or modify the user's existing one.
>>>>> These options are not usable at all, since the user only sees the admin's
>>>>> address book, but their presence is annoying.
>>>>> On the other hand, having a look at the code it seems that this button is
>>>>> showed because the localsql source is configured with use_shares
>>>>> = true . I
>>>>> can't change this since admin needs it to be able to share the
>>>>> address book.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only way I found to get rid of the button was to comment out the
>>>>> following lines from lib/Turba.php :
>>>>> if ($GLOBALS['haveShare']) {
>>>>>  $menu->add(Horde::applicationUrl('addressbooks.php'), _("_My Address
>>>>> Books"), 'turba.png');
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> But I don't like to mess with the code. Is there a way to have only the
>>>>> admin user to own an address book, or to map the use_shares  
>>>>> attribute on a
>>>>> per-user basis, or some other trick to make that button disappear?
>>>>> Or maybe, a new pref could be introduced to force  
>>>>> $GLOBALS['haveShare'] to
>>>>> be false even if the source has use_shares = true ?
>>>>
>>>> Not currently. In fact, setting $GLOBALS['haveShare'] to false would
>>>> prevent any of your shared sources from loading as that is what
>>>> flags  base.php to load all the shares available to the user.
>>>> Commenting out  the menu is currently the only way I can think of to
>>>> have the  functionalitly of shares, without showing the My
>>>> AddressBook page.  Of  course, this won't prevent users from
>>>> navigating there directly,  although there is nothing they can
>>>> really do once there.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose an argument could be made for adding either a
>>>> configuration  option or maybe a new permission to Turba that could
>>>> toggle the  availability of the My Addressbook page?
>>>
>>> This is not quite sure. You can still create non-share address book
>>> and set permissions through the global (aka admin) permissions
>>> interface.
>>
>> Sorry, I thought with use_shares => false that sql sources would act
>>  as private address books, giving PERMS_READ to a sql source would
>> allow that user to see that source, but only those contacts that
>> have  that user as owner would be shown.  I thought this feature was
>> removed  along with the 'public' attribute?
>>
>> How do you get all contacts to appear regardless of owner while not
>> using shares?  Am I missing some other attribute?
>
> Yes, don't use the owner attribute.

Ah. Of course.  Thanks.  I'll put up some info on the wiki about  
public sources done with and without shares when I get the chance.


Thanks,
mike

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