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jmason03

Member

Registered: January 9, 2014

Posts: 123

Restrict Developer Module Access

We have a user who needs a Developer account but there is one particular module that we would not like her to have access to. I tried going into the users table and setting "moduleID":"p" to "moduleID":"n" under the permissions column but that did not work. I'm just curious if what I want to do is even possible or if once the system sees she is a developer then it doesn't even check the permissions?

Thanks

timbuckingham

Administrator

From: Baltimore, MD

Registered: April 2, 2012

Posts: 978

Re: Restrict Developer Module Access

Every module permission is ignored for Administrators and Developers (they're automatically publishers). When permissions checks are run it first checks the user level and if it's > 0 it automatically returns "p" for publisher. You'd need to use a custom BigTreeAdmin extension class to overwrite checkAccess with a custom version that takes away this:

if ($this->Level > 0) {
    return true;
}

jmason03

Member

Registered: January 9, 2014

Posts: 123

Re: Restrict Developer Module Access

That worked perfect!

Thanks