Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Forced Preferences

[Chris Weiss]

did you register the hook after creating the file?

Daryl L. L. Houston (address@hidden) wrote:
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>Hmmm, still can't get this working.  I read the wiki last week and wasn't able
>to make this work after acquiring what I believe may be a good understanding
>of how it *should* work.  Namely: You should have a file called hook_settings
>in which you define the form controls that are to be governed with default or
>forced values.  I've created a couple of these (notes and todo didn't have
>them, incidentally) with no good results.
>
>To clarify, the tabs for the three tiers of prefs appear and highlight
>appropriately, but they don't pass their values to the actual prefs
>applications, and when I make changes to the prefs that should affect all
>users, the changes do not take.  I understand that this officially isn't
>working in calendar in 9.14 yet.  It appears that it's not working in todo or
>notes either.  If anybody's got it working in these apps and wouldn't mind
>letting me know which versions of the apps they've got, I'll make sure I've
>got the same versions and give it another shot.
>
>I'll try tomorrow to grab 9.16.  I suspect that I found myself in HEAD and
>acquired xslt files by accident while in there.  Thanks again for the
>response.
>
>D
>
>
>On Monday 28 April 2003 01:58 pm, Chris Weiss wrote:
>> todo and notes should have all the prefs.  Also the main Preferences have
>> it.
>>
>> Daryl L. L. Houston (address@hidden) wrote:
>> >Thanks for your response! To your knowledge, are there any modules in .14
>> > that do currently support the 3-level prefs (so I can dig around and
>> > figure out how it's all handled)? I'm on a moderately tight deadline to
>> > implement such functionality.  Actually, what I need to do is to add a
>> > pref to the projects module (I've done this already) and force the prefs
>> > on that option.  I'm also looking at going ahead and pulling .16 code
>> > from CVS (bugs and all) as a solution but am running into difficulties
>> > getting my system to play nice with XML/xslt.so.  Thanks in advance for
>> > any additional tips you may have.
>> >
>> >D
>> >
>> >On Monday 28 April 2003 12:54 pm, Ralf Becker wrote:
>> >> The calendar in .14 does not support / use the 3-level
>> >> (user/default/forced) prefs. It is already implemented in .16.
>> >>
>> >> Ralf
>> >>
>> >> Daryl L. L. Houston wrote:
>> >> > I've got 9.14.003 installed and am having some difficulty with forcing
>> >> > preferences.  As an admin, I set some forced prefs for the calendar
>> >> > (for example).  My understanding is that regular users, when they
>> >> > attempt to change their preferences, shouldn't even see a line for the
>> >> > item I've forced. But when I log in as a regular user, I've got the
>> >> > item and am able to change it.
>> >> >
>> >> > I notice also that when I click the forced prefs tab, there's a
>> >> > parameter named type, but it doesn't appear that it gets passed along
>> >> > to the actual prefs page for a given app.  In other words, it doesn't
>> >> > appear that there's any way for the application to know that I'm
>> >> > setting a default or a forced pref rather than my own.  I would have
>> >> > assumed that this capability was built in (since the tabs are built
>> >> > in).
>> >> >
>> >> > Can anybody provide any insight or point me to some revised files
>> >> > that'll help me resolve this issue?  I downloaded the tarball from
>> >> > phpgroupware.org. Thanks,
>> >> >
>> >> > D
>> >> >
>> >> >
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