No estimate. David Jones and I seem to be the only ones actively involved right now, and our availability is limited. We need others to get involved.
I will be making a big commit to the branch today. I'm adding security auditing and making a few changes to the authorization manager API. -Adrian --- On Sat, 1/9/10, Christopher Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Christopher Snow <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: making form field visibility user driven > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 11:37 AM > 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 > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Chris Snow - CEng MBCS CITP MBA (Tech Mgmt) (Open) CISSP > > Tel: 01453 890660 > Mob: 07944 880950 > Www: www.snowconsulting.co.uk > >
