Nice!  Is there a rough estimate of when the executioncontext branch
will be merged back into trunk?

Many thanks,

Chris

Adrian Crum wrote:
> That capability is included in the proposed security redesign:
>
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/OFBiz+Security+Redesign
>
> and there is a working example of what you describe in the latest 
> executioncontext branch.
>
> -Adrian
>
> --- On Sat, 1/9/10, Christopher Snow <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Christopher Snow <[email protected]>
>> Subject: making form field visibility user driven
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 9:33 AM
>> I expect this has been discussed many
>> times, but has anyone looked at
>> making the visibility of form fields based on the current
>> user.
>>
>> HtmlFormRenderer could be modified so that before it
>> outputs a field, it
>> could check a configuration object so determine whether the
>> field
>> (identified by its name, e.g
>> WorkEffortForms.xml#EditICalendarPartyAssign:statusId)
>> should be
>> displayed for the current user.  A configuration
>> screen in webtools
>> could then be created to declare what fields should be
>> hidden for a
>> particular user. 
>>
>> This concept could be extended to look at PartyGroups and
>> assigned
>> organisations so that users from Organisation A would see
>> different
>> forms to those users from Organisation B.
>>
>> Has this been discussed before?  Is there any merit in
>> this suggestion?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>     
>
>
>       
>   


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